The Aesop for Children, The Goatherd and the Goat, sentence 2
The Goatherd tried to call it back, but in vain.
Who acts: Goatherd · What happens: try, call back · To what, where: Goatherd
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 (Goatherd), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Goatherd | det |
| 2 | Goatherd | Goatherd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 call | mark |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 call | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 call | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 vain | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 vain | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 vain | case |
| 11 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tried | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the Goatherd | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | call back speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Goatherd not said here | Goatherd | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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