The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, sentence 2
Soon he found life in the pasture very dull.
Who acts: Shepherd · What happens: find · To what, where: life, pasture
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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 pasture | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pasture | det |
| 7 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 dull | advmod |
| 9 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pasture | amod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Shepherd | life | the pasture | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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