The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd and the Lion, sentence 1
A Shepherd, counting his Sheep one day, discovered that a number of them were missing.
Who acts: Shepherd, number · What happens: count, discover, be · To what, where: Sheep
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Shepherd and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shepherd, number), 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 Shepherd | det |
| 2 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 discovered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 counting | punct |
| 4 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Shepherd | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Sheep | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 counting | obj |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 counting | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shepherd | punct |
| 10 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 missing | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 number | det |
| 13 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 missing | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 number | nmod |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 missing | cop |
| 17 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 discovered | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | a Shepherd not said here | Shepherd's Sheep | day | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | |||
| 2 | discover | past | a Shepherd | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | a number of Sheep | missing property | tree rules |
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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