The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, sentence 10
A few days later the Shepherd Boy again shouted, "Wolf!
Who acts: Shepherd Boy · What happens: shout · To what, where: Wolf
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 Boy), 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 | 3 days | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 shouted | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Boy | det |
| 6 | Shepherd | Shepherd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Boy | compound |
| 7 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 shouted | nsubj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 shouted | advmod |
| 9 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wolf | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wolf | punct |
| 12 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shouted | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | the Shepherd Boy | Wolf | again | late property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic |
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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