The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, sentence 12
Again the Villagers ran to help him, only to be laughed at again.
Who acts: Villagers · What happens: run, help, laugh · To what, where: Boy
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 (Villagers), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Villagers | det |
| 3 | Villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 help | mark |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ran | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 help | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laughed | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 laughed | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 laughed | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 laughed | aux:pass |
| 12 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ran | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 again | case |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 laughed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the Villagers | again | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | the Villagers not said here | Boy | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | laugh | to-infinitive · passive | the Villagers not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V» |
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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