--- title: "Here," said the shepherd Abbot, planting his crozier in the ground;… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Here," said the shepherd Abbot, planting his crozier in the ground; "an' your Majesty believe me not, go measure it and see." Who acts: shepherd, Majesty. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, Majesty), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:28:56 # text = "Here," said the shepherd Abbot, planting his crozier in the ground; "an' your Majesty believe me not, go measure it and see." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 shepherd shepherd NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 Abbot Abbot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 planting plant VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 crozier crozier NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 27 measure measure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the shepherd | | | here | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **plant** | gerund | the shepherd *not said here* | Abbot's crozier | | the ground | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crozier=Theme in ground=Destination | | 3 | **not** **believe** *in a quote* | infinitive | your Majesty | | the shepherd *= shepherd* | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **measure** *in a quote* | infinitive | | crozier | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value | | 6 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/28/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/28/57/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/28/)