The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, sentence 16

But though the Villagers heard the cry, they did not run to help him as they had before. "

Who acts: Villagers · What happens: hear, not run, help, have · To what, where: cry, 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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 run	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 heard	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Villagers	det
4	Villagers	Villager	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 run	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cry	det
7	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 run	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 run	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 run	advmod
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 help	mark
14	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 run	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 help	obj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 help	advcl
19	before	before	ADV	_	18 had	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 run	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 run	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the Villagers	the cry			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
2	not run	past · do-support	Villagers = villager				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	help	to-infinitive	Villagers = villager not said here		Wolf		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
4	have	past	Villagers = villager			before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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