The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 104

And so the poor shepherd was drowned instead of Mr. Simon!

What happens: drown · To what, where: poor shepherd

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: 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 drowned	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	7 drowned	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shepherd	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shepherd	amod
5	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drowned	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drowned	aux:pass
7	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	11 Simon	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 instead	fixed
10	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Simon	nmod:desc
11	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 drowned	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 drowned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past · passive		the poor shepherd				instead Simon Mr.	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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