The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, sentence 13

Then one evening as the sun was setting behind the forest and the shadows were creeping out over the pasture, a Wolf really did spring from the underbrush and fall upon the Sheep.

Who acts: sun, shadows, Wolf · What happens: set, creep out, do, fall · To what, where: forest, pasture, underbrush

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 (sun, shadows, Wolf), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 setting	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 evening	nummod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 setting	obl:unmarked
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 setting	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 setting	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 setting	aux
8	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 did	advcl
9	behind	behind	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 setting	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 creeping	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shadows	det
14	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 creeping	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 creeping	aux
16	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 setting	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 creeping	compound:prt
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 pasture	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pasture	det
20	pasture	pasture	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 creeping	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 setting	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Wolf	det
23	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 did	nsubj
24	really	really	ADV	_	25 did	advmod
25	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 did	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 underbrush	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 underbrush	det
29	underbrush	underbrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 did	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fall	cc
31	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 underbrush	conj
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 Sheep	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Sheep	det
34	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fall	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past · progressive	the sun	the forest	then; evening		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent behind forest=Destination
2	creep out	past · progressive	the shadows	the pasture			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over pasture=Trajectory
3	do	past	a Wolf	the underbrush	spring		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall	infinitive	a Wolf not said here			upon the Sheep	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon sheep=Location

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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