The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Shepherd, sentence 3

What a great shouting and running about there would have been, had they caught me at just the very thing they are doing with so much enjoyment!"

Who acts: great shouting, they · What happens: run about, have, catch, do · To what, where: me, thing

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 (great shouting, they), 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 shouting	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shouting	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shouting	amod
4	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 running	cc
6	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 shouting	conj
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 running	advmod
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shouting	acl:relcl
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 would	xcomp
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 have	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shouting	punct
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 caught	nsubj
15	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 caught	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	21 thing	case
18	just	just	ADV	_	21 thing	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thing	det
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 thing	advmod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 caught	obl
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 doing	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 doing	aux
24	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 thing	acl:relcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 enjoyment	case
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 much	advmod
27	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 enjoyment	amod
28	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 doing	obl
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 doing	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run about	gerund	what great shouting not said here		there		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	infinitive	what great shouting not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	what great shouting				tree rules
4	catch	past	they	me	the thing		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Theme at thing=Asset
5	do	present · progressive	they	the thing not said here		with much enjoyment	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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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