The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, sentence 3

All he could do to amuse himself was to talk to his dog or play on his shepherd's pipe.

Who acts: All, Shepherd · What happens: do, amuse, be · To what, where: pipe

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 (All, 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 do	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 amuse	mark
6	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 do	csubj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 talk	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 talk	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 talk	mark
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 amuse	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 dog	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dog	nmod:poss
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 talk	obl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 play	cc
15	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dog	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	20 pipe	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shepherd	nmod:poss
18	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pipe	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 shepherd	case
20	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 talk	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	do	could	All			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	amuse	to-infinitive				tree rules
3	is	past	Shepherd	Shepherd's shepherd's pipe	to Shepherd's dog or play; talk property	tree rules

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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