The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd and the Lion, sentence 5

The Shepherd searched a long time without finding any Wolves, but just as he was passing near a large cave on the mountain side, a huge Lion stalked out, carrying a Sheep.

Who acts: Shepherd, huge Lion · What happens: search, find, pass, stalk out, carry · To what, where: Wolves, large cave, 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, huge Lion), 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 searched	nsubj
3	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 searched	obj
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 finding	mark
8	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 searched	advcl
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 Wolves	det
10	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 finding	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 passing	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 passing	cc
13	just	just	ADV	_	17 passing	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 passing	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 passing	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 passing	aux
17	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 searched	advcl
18	near	near	ADP	_	21 cave	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cave	det
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cave	amod
21	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 passing	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 side	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 side	det
24	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 side	compound
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 passing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stalked	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 Lion	det
28	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Lion	amod
29	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 stalked	nsubj
30	stalked	stalk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 searched	parataxis
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 stalked	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 carrying	punct
33	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 stalked	advcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 Sheep	det
35	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 carrying	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 searched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	past	the Shepherd			time		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	find	gerund	the Shepherd not said here	any Wolves				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic
3	pass	past · progressive	Shepherd		a large cave		on the mountain side	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near cave=Location
4	stalk out	past	a huge Lion					vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	carry	gerund	a huge Lion not said here	a Sheep				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=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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