--- title: The shepherd felt that if he once removed his eyes off the beast he… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The shepherd felt that if he once removed his eyes off the beast he was a dead man, and in order to keep himself awake he made songs and sang them, and so the night went by. Who acts: shepherd, night. 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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, night), 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:pg2435:3:89 # text = The shepherd felt that if he once removed his eyes off the beast he was a dead man, and in order to keep himself awake he made songs and sang them, and so the night went by. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 shepherd shepherd NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 8 advmod _ _ 8 removed remove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 off off ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 in in SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 24 mark _ _ 22 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 fixed _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 25 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 obj _ _ 26 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 29 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 39 by by ADP IN _ 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past | the shepherd | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **remove** | past | shepherd | shepherd's eyes | | | | once *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | shepherd | a dead man | | | | off the beast | tree rules | | 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the shepherd *not said here* | shepherd | | | | awake *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | past | shepherd | songs | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Product | | 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | shepherd *not said here* | eyes *= eye* | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | | 7 | **go by** | past | the night | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/3/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/3/90/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/3/)