The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, sentence 1
A Shepherd Boy tended his master's Sheep near a dark forest not far from the village.
Who acts: Shepherd · What happens: tend · To what, where: Sheep, dark forest
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Shepherd Boy 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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Shepherd | det |
| 2 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tended | nsubj |
| 3 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Shepherd | appos |
| 4 | tended | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 master | nmod:poss |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Sheep | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 master | case |
| 8 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tended | obj |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 forest | amod |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tended | obl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 far | advmod |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 tended | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 village | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 village | det |
| 17 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 far | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tend | past | a Shepherd | Shepherd's master's Sheep | a dark forest | far property | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «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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