The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 13
The shepherd at last let himself be persuaded, and gave the stranger his sheep.
Who acts: shepherd, fortune · What happens: let, persuade, give · To what, where: fortune, sheep, stranger
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 (shepherd, fortune), 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 let | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shepherd | nmod |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 8 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 let | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stranger | det |
| 13 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | iobj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gave | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | the shepherd at last | fortune | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | persuade | infinitive · passive | fortune not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the shepherd at last not said here | stranger's sheep | the stranger | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Recipient sheep=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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