The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd and the Lion, sentence 3
The Shepherd suspected a Wolf of the deed and so set out toward a rocky region among the hills, where there were caves infested by Wolves.
Who acts: Shepherd · What happens: suspect, set out, infest · To what, where: Wolf, rocky region, caves
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Shepherd | det |
| 2 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suspected | nsubj |
| 3 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Wolf | det |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 suspected | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 deed | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 deed | det |
| 8 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Wolf | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 suspected | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 16 region | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 region | det |
| 15 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 region | amod |
| 16 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 hills | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hills | det |
| 19 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 set | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 were | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 were | advmod |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 were | expl |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hills | acl:relcl |
| 24 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 were | nsubj |
| 25 | infested | infest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 caves | acl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 Wolves | case |
| 27 | Wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 infested | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suspected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspect | past | the Shepherd | a Wolf of the deed | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent wolf=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | set out | infinitive | the Shepherd not said here | a rocky region | among the hills | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward region=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | infest | participle | caves not said here | by Wolves | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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