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title: When he got back to his sheep he found the flock grazing peacefully,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he got back to his sheep he found the flock grazing peacefully, and as he was very tired he laid himself down by them to rest a little. Who acts: shepherd, flock. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 34

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When he got back to his sheep he found the flock grazing peacefully, and as he was very tired he laid himself down by them to rest a little.

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**Who acts:** shepherd, flock · **What happens:** get back, find, graze, be, lay down, rest · **To what, where:** flock, shepherd, little

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, flock), 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:pg2435:6:34
# text = When he got back to his sheep he found the flock grazing peacefully, and as he was very tired he laid himself down by them to rest a little.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get back** | past | shepherd |  |  |  |  | to shepherd's sheep *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to sheep=Result |
| 2 | **find** | past | shepherd | the flock |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Topic |
| 3 | **graze** | gerund | the flock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | peacefully *property* | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | shepherd |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **lay down** | past | shepherd | shepherd |  |  |  | by birds *= bird* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme by they=Destination |
| 6 | **rest** | to-infinitive | shepherd *not said here* | a little |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location little=Theme |

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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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