The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 22
The shepherd felt very sorry for the lovely maiden, and determined to follow the carriage.
Who acts: shepherd · What happens: feel, follow · To what, where: carriage
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), 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 | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 sorry | advmod |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 maiden | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maiden | det |
| 8 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 maiden | amod |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sorry | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 determined | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 determined | cc |
| 12 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 follow | mark |
| 14 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 determined | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 carriage | det |
| 16 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 follow | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the shepherd | sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | the shepherd not said here | the carriage | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=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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