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title: One autumn evening as we drove the flock homeward ten sheep were mis… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One autumn evening as we drove the flock homeward ten sheep were missing, and the master bade me go and seek them in the forest. Who acts: we, ten sheep, master. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 68

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One autumn evening as we drove the flock homeward ten sheep were missing, and the master bade me go and seek them in the forest.

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**Who acts:** we, ten sheep, master · **What happens:** drive, be, bade, go, seek · **To what, where:** flock homeward, me, sheep, forest

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, ten sheep, master), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2435:15:68
# text = One autumn evening as we drove the flock homeward ten sheep were missing, and the master bade me go and seek them in the forest.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past | we | the flock homeward |  |  | evening |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | ten sheep | the flock homeward *not said here* |  |  |  | missing *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bade** | past | the master | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | the master *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **seek** | infinitive | the master *not said here* | sheep |  | the forest |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in forest=Location |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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