The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 10

My sheep at least feed themselves, but I should have to find food for the dogs.’

Who acts: sheep, I · What happens: feed, have, find · To what, where: sheep, least, food

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep, I), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sheep	nmod:poss
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feed	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 least	case
4	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 feed	obl
5	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 feed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 have	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 feed	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 find	mark
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 have	xcomp
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 dogs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dogs	det
17	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 find	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 feed	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 feed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feed	infinitive	My sheep	sheep	least		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient
2	have	should	I				tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive	I not said here	food		for the dogs	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Theme for dog=Beneficiary

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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