English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 9

And he went all that day, and all the next day; and on the third day, in the afternoon, he came up to where a shepherd was sitting with a flock of sheep.

Who acts: man, shepherd · What happens: go, come up, sit

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det:predet
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 day	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 day	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 day	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
17	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 afternoon	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 afternoon	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 afternoon	det
22	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 day	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 day	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
26	up	up	ADV	_	25 came	advmod
27	to	to	SCONJ	_	32 sitting	mark
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 sitting	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 shepherd	det
30	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sitting	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sitting	aux
32	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 came	advcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 flock	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 flock	det
35	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sitting	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 sheep	case
37	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 flock	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	man	day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come up	past	man	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past · progressive	a shepherd		with a flock of sheep	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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