The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 3
When the shepherd was dead, the brother asked his sister which she would like best, the sheep or the little house; and when she had chosen the house he said, ‘Then I’ll take the sheep and go out to seek my fortune in the wide world.
Who acts: shepherd, brother, daughter, house, I · What happens: be, ask, like, choose, say, take · To what, where: sister, sheep, fortune, wide world · Speech: someone speaks here
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, brother, daughter, house), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 dead | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shepherd | det |
| 3 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brother | det |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sister | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 like | obj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 like | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 like | aux |
| 15 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sister | acl:relcl |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 like | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sheep | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sheep | det |
| 19 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sister | conj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 house | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 house | amod |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sister | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 chosen | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 chosen | cc |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 chosen | advmod |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 chosen | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 chosen | aux |
| 29 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 dead | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 house | det |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 said | nsubj |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 said | nsubj |
| 33 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 chosen | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 take | punct |
| 35 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 take | punct |
| 36 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 take | advmod |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 take | nsubj |
| 38 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 take | aux |
| 39 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 said | ccomp |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 sheep | det |
| 41 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 take | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 go | cc |
| 43 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 take | conj |
| 44 | out | out | ADV | _ | 43 go | advmod |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 seek | mark |
| 46 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 go | advcl |
| 47 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 48 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 seek | obj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 world | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 world | det |
| 51 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 world | amod |
| 52 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 seek | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the shepherd | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the brother | brother's sister and the sheep or the little house | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | like | would | daughter | brother's sister and the sheep or the little house | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | choose | past · perfect | daughter | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the house | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | take | future | I | the sheep | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sheep=Destination | |||
| 7 | go out | infinitive | I not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | seek | to-infinitive | I not said here | my fortune | the wide world | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme in world=Location |
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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