The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 70

But all he did was to point to the boy who had saved him, and had followed him with his flock.

Who acts: Mogarzea, all · What happens: do, be, save, follow · To what, where: boy, Mogarzea

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mogarzea, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 point	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 point	nsubj:outer
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 all	acl:relcl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 point	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 point	mark
7	point	point	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 boy	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 point	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 saved	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saved	aux
13	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 boy	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saved	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 followed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 followed	cc
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 followed	aux
18	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 point	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 followed	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 flock	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 flock	nmod:poss
22	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 followed	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 point	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mogarzea			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	all		to the boy; point property	tree rules
3	save	past · perfect · passive		the boy		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Theme
4	follow	past · perfect		Mogarzea	with Mogarzea's flock	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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