Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 47

However, the king gave his consent; and in an hour and a half the horrible wolf was walking into the palace-yard, and Tom a step or two behind, with his club on his shoulder, just as a shepherd would be walking after a pet lamb.

Who acts: king, horrible wolf, shepherd · What happens: give, walk, consent · To what, where: consent, half

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, horrible wolf, 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 consent	nmod:poss
7	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 hour	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hour	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hour	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hour	det
12	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 half	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 half	det
15	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 hour	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wolf	det
17	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wolf	amod
18	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 walking	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 walking	aux
20	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 half	acl:relcl
21	into	into	ADP	_	25 yard	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 yard	det
23	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 yard	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 palace	punct
25	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 walking	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 behind	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 behind	cc
28	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 step	compound
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 step	det
30	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 behind	nsubj
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 two	cc
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 step	conj
33	behind	behind	ADV	_	20 walking	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 club	punct
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 club	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 club	nmod:poss
37	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 walking	obl
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 shoulder	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 shoulder	nmod:poss
40	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 club	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 walking	punct
42	just	just	ADV	_	48 walking	advmod
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 walking	mark
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 shepherd	det
45	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 walking	nsubj
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 walking	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 walking	aux
48	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 walking	conj
49	after	after	ADP	_	52 lamb	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 lamb	det
51	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 lamb	compound
52	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 walking	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the king	King's consent	hour	however property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme
2	walk	past · progressive	the horrible wolf	a half not said here		into the palace yard; with King's club on King's shoulder	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent half=Theme into yard=Trajectory
3	walk	would · progressive	a shepherd		after a pet lamb		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	consent		King				nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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