The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 36

As for me I lay still and watched them run, for I was very comfortable, and there I might be still if they had not come up, all panting and breathless, and compelled me to get up and follow them; they also reproached me bitterly, but I need hardly tell you that they did not again entrust me with the flock.

Who acts: I, sheep, all · What happens: lay, watch, run, be, not be, pant · To what, where: sheep, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sheep, all), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 me	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 lay	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 lay	nsubj
5	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 watched	cc
8	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 watched	obj
10	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 watched	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 comfortable	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 comfortable	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 comfortable	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 comfortable	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 comfortable	advmod
16	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 run	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 come	cc
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 come	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 come	nsubj
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 come	cop
23	still	still	ADV	_	28 come	advmod
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 come	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 come	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 come	advmod
28	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 lay	conj
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 come	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 panting	punct
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 panting	nsubj
32	panting	pant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lay	advcl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 breathless	cc
34	breathless	breathless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 panting	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 compelled	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 compelled	cc
37	compelled	compel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 panting	conj
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 compelled	obj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 get	mark
40	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 compelled	advcl
41	up	up	ADP	_	40 get	compound:prt
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 follow	cc
43	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 get	conj
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 follow	obj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 reproached	punct
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 reproached	nsubj
47	also	also	ADV	_	48 reproached	advmod
48	reproached	reproach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	parataxis
49	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 reproached	obj
50	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	48 reproached	advmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 need	punct
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 need	cc
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 need	nsubj
54	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 reproached	conj
55	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	56 tell	advmod
56	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 need	xcomp
57	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	56 tell	iobj
58	that	that	SCONJ	_	63 entrust	mark
59	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 entrust	nsubj
60	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 entrust	aux
61	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	63 entrust	advmod
62	again	again	ADV	_	63 entrust	advmod
63	entrust	entrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 tell	ccomp
64	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	63 entrust	obj
65	with	with	ADP	_	67 flock	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 flock	det
67	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 entrust	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	I				still	as me	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as i=Attribute
2	watch	past	I not said here	sheep					tree rules
3	run	infinitive	sheep not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	I					comfortable property	tree rules
5	not is a condition, not said to happen	might · perfect	I			there	still	come property	tree rules
6	pant	gerund	all						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	compel	past	all not said here	me					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
8	get up	to-infinitive	all not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	follow	infinitive	all not said here	sheep					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
10	reproach	past	sheep	me				bitterly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
11	need	present	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
12	tell speech: assert not said to happen	present	I not said here		you			hardly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
13	not entrust	past · do-support	sheep		me		again	with the flock	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with flock=Theme

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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