The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 25

The coachman perceived that the shepherd wished to follow her, and warned him not to do so if he valued his life; but the shepherd wouldn’t listen to his advice.

Who acts: coachman, shepherd · What happens: perceive, wish, follow, warn, not do, value · To what, where: girl, coachman, life

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 (coachman, 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 coachman	det
2	coachman	coachman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 perceived	nsubj
3	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 wished	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shepherd	det
6	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wished	nsubj
7	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 perceived	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 follow	mark
9	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wished	xcomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 follow	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 warned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 warned	cc
13	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 perceived	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 warned	obj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 do	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 warned	ccomp
18	so	so	ADV	_	17 do	advmod
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 valued	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 valued	nsubj
21	valued	value	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 do	advcl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 life	nmod:poss
23	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 valued	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 listen	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 listen	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 shepherd	det
27	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 listen	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 listen	aux
29	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 listen	advmod
30	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 perceived	parataxis
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 advice	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 advice	nmod:poss
33	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 listen	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	the coachman				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	wish	past	the shepherd				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	follow not said to happen	to-infinitive	the shepherd not said here	girl			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	warn speech: warn	past	the coachman not said here		coachman		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	value a condition, not said to happen	past	coachman	coachman's life			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus
7	not listen	would	the shepherd			to coachman's advice	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to advice=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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