The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Shepherd, sentence 1

A Wolf, lurking near the Shepherd's hut, saw the Shepherd and his family feasting on a roasted lamb.

Who acts: Wolf, family · What happens: lurk, see, feast, roast · To what, where: hut, Shepherd

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Shepherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, family), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lurking	punct
4	lurking	lurk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Wolf	acl
5	near	near	ADP	_	9 hut	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Shepherd	det
7	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hut	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Shepherd	case
9	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lurking	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wolf	punct
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Shepherd	det
13	Shepherd	Shepherd	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 family	cc
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 family	nmod:poss
16	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Shepherd	conj
17	feasting	feast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 family	acl
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 lamb	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lamb	det
20	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 lamb	amod
21	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feasting	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lurk	gerund	a Wolf not said here		the Shepherd's hut		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near hut=Location
2	see	past	a Wolf	the Shepherd and Wolf's family			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shepherd=Stimulus
3	feast	gerund	Wolf's family not said here			on a roasted lamb	vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on lamb=Patient
4	roast	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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