The Aesop for Children, The Kid and the Wolf, sentence 1
A frisky young Kid had been left by the herdsman on the thatched roof of a sheep shelter to keep him out of harm's way.
Who acts: herdsman · What happens: leave, thatch, keep · To what, where: frisky young Kid, thatched roof, Kid, way
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Kid and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herdsman), 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 | 4 Kid | det |
| 2 | frisky | frisky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Kid | amod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Kid | amod |
| 4 | Kid | Kid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 left | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 left | aux:pass |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 herdsman | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 herdsman | det |
| 10 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 roof | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 roof | det |
| 13 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 roof | amod |
| 14 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 shelter | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 shelter | det |
| 17 | sheep | sheep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shelter | amod |
| 18 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 roof | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 keep | mark |
| 20 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 left | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 keep | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 way | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 way | case |
| 24 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 way | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 harm | case |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 keep | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the herdsman | a frisky young Kid | the thatched roof of a sheep shelter | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on roof=Location | |||
| 2 | thatch | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | the herdsman not said here | Kid | harm's way | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out way=Location |
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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