The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd and the Lion, sentence 2

Much irritated, he very loudly and boastfully declared that he would catch the thief and punish him as he deserved.

Who acts: Shepherd · What happens: irritate, declare, catch, punish, deserve · To what, where: thief, Shepherd

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), 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	Much	much	ADV	_	2 irritated	advmod
2	irritated	irritate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 declared	parataxis
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 irritated	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 declared	nsubj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 loudly	advmod
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	9 declared	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 declared	cc
8	boastfully	boastfully	ADV	_	9 declared	advmod
9	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 catch	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 catch	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 catch	aux
13	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 declared	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thief	det
15	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 catch	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 punish	cc
17	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	9 declared	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 punish	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 deserved	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 deserved	nsubj
21	deserved	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 punish	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	irritate	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	declare speech: other	past	Shepherd		boastfully, loudly property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	catch	would	Shepherd	the thief		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Theme
4	punish	present	Shepherd not said here	Shepherd		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	deserve	past	Shepherd			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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