The Aesop for Children, The Goatherd and the Goat, sentence 1
A Goat strayed away from the flock, tempted by a patch of clover.
Who acts: Goat · What happens: stray away, tempt · To what, where: flock
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goatherd and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goat), 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 Goat | det |
| 2 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 strayed | nsubj |
| 3 | strayed | stray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 strayed | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 flock | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flock | det |
| 7 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strayed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tempted | punct |
| 9 | tempted | tempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 flock | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 patch | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 patch | det |
| 12 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tempted | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 clover | case |
| 14 | clover | clover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 patch | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stray away | past | a Goat | the flock | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from flock=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | tempt | participle | the flock not said here | by a patch of clover | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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