The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 97

The shepherd was much startled, for he couldn’t make out where these words, which were repeated more than once, came from, and looked about him to the right and left; at last he perceived the sack in which Simon was hidden, and going up to it he opened it and discovered Simon repeating his dismal complaint.

Who acts: shepherd, words · What happens: startle, not make out, repeat, come, look, leave · To what, where: shepherd, words, sack, last, Simon, dismal complaint

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, words), 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 shepherd	det
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 startled	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 startled	aux:pass
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 startled	advmod
5	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 make	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 make	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 make	aux
10	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 make	advmod
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 startled	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 make	compound:prt
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 came	advmod
14	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 words	det
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 came	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 repeated	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 repeated	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 repeated	aux:pass
19	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 words	appos
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	22 once	advmod
21	than	than	ADP	_	20 more	fixed
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 repeated	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 words	punct
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 make	advcl
25	from	from	ADP	_	24 came	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 looked	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 looked	cc
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 startled	parataxis
29	about	about	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 looked	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 right	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 right	det
33	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 looked	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 left	cc
35	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 looked	conj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 perceived	punct
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 last	case
38	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 perceived	obl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 perceived	nsubj
40	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 startled	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 sack	det
42	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 perceived	obj
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 which	case
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 hidden	obl
45	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 hidden	nsubj:pass
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 hidden	aux:pass
47	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 sack	acl:relcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 opened	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 opened	cc
50	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 opened	advcl
51	up	up	ADV	_	50 going	advmod
52	to	to	ADP	_	53 it	case
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 going	obl
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 opened	nsubj
55	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 startled	parataxis
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 opened	obj
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 discovered	cc
58	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 opened	conj
59	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 discovered	obj
60	repeating	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	58 discovered	advcl
61	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 complaint	nmod:poss
62	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 complaint	amod
63	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 repeating	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 startled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	startle	past · passive		the shepherd				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	not make out	could	shepherd					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	repeat	past · passive		this words			once property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	come	past	this words					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	look	past					about shepherd; to the right	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme
6	leave	past						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	perceive	past	shepherd	the sack		last		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sack=Stimulus
8	hide	past · passive		Simon		the sack		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in which=Location
9	go up	gerund	shepherd not said here		sack			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
10	open	past	shepherd	sack				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
11	discover	past	shepherd not said here	Simon				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent simon=Topic
12	repeat	gerund	shepherd not said here	shepherd's dismal complaint				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent complaint=Eventuality
13	complain		shepherd					nom complaint «state 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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