The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 102

Then getting out of the sack, he tied the confiding shepherd up in it instead, and at his request fastened it securely and drove the sheep on himself.

Who acts: shepherd · What happens: get out, tie up, confide, fasten, drive, request · To what, where: sack, confiding shepherd, request, sheep

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 getting	advmod
2	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 tied	advcl
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 sack	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sack	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sack	det
6	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 getting	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 getting	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tied	nsubj
9	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shepherd	det
11	confiding	confide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 shepherd	amod
12	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tied	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	9 tied	compound:prt
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tied	obl
16	instead	instead	ADV	_	9 tied	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fastened	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fastened	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 request	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 request	nmod:poss
21	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fastened	obl
22	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tied	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fastened	obj
24	securely	securely	ADV	_	22 fastened	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 drove	cc
26	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fastened	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sheep	det
28	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drove	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 himself	case
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 drove	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	gerund	shepherd not said here	the sack		then		tree rules
2	tie up	past	shepherd	the confiding shepherd	sack		instead property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Patient
3	confide speech: other	gerund						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	fasten	past	shepherd not said here	sack	shepherd's request		securely property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	drive	past	shepherd not said here	the sheep			on shepherd	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme on himself=Destination
6	request		shepherd					nom request «communication transitive»: 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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