The Green Fairy Book, The Dirty Shepherdess, sentence 25

The Prince thought some witchcraft must be at work, and he hastened away before the return of the shepherdess, who became that evening the butt of everybody’s jests.

Who acts: Prince, witchcraft, shepherdess, everybody · What happens: think, be, hasten away, become, return, jest · To what, where: work, return, butt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dirty Shepherdess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, witchcraft, shepherdess, everybody), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 witchcraft	det
5	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 work	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 work	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 work	cop
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 work	case
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hastened	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hastened	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hastened	nsubj
13	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 hastened	advmod
15	before	before	ADP	_	17 return	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 return	det
17	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hastened	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 shepherdess	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shepherdess	det
20	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 return	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 became	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 became	nsubj
23	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 shepherdess	acl:relcl
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 evening	det
25	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 became	obl:unmarked
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 butt	det
27	butt	butt	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 became	xcomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 jests	case
29	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	31 jests	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 everybody	case
31	jests	jest	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 butt	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Prince					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	must	some witchcraft		work			tree rules
3	hasten away	past	Prince		the return of the shepherdess		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before return=Trajectory
4	become	past	the shepherdess	the butt of everybody's jests		evening		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	return		the shepherdess					nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent
6	jest		everybody					nom jest «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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