The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 106
On their way they noticed a flock of sheep grazing not far from the road.
Who acts: sheep · What happens: notice, graze · To what, where: flock, way
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 (sheep), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noticed | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 noticed | nsubj |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flock | det |
| 7 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noticed | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sheep | case |
| 9 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flock | nmod |
| 10 | grazing | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 sheep | acl |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 far | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 grazing | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 road | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 road | det |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 far | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | sheep | a flock of sheep | sheep's way | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer flock=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | graze | gerund | sheep not said here | far property | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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