The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, sentence 4

One day as he sat watching the Sheep and the quiet forest, and thinking what he would do should he see a Wolf, he thought of a plan to amuse himself.

Who acts: Shepherd · What happens: sit, watch, think, do, see, amuse · To what, where: Sheep, Wolf, Shepherd · Speech: someone speaks here

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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl:unmarked
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 sat	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sat	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sheep	det
8	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 watching	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 forest	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
11	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 forest	amod
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Sheep	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 see	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 see	cc
15	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 see	csubj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 do	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 do	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 do	aux
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 thinking	ccomp
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sat	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Wolf	det
24	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 thought	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thought	nsubj
27	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 plan	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 plan	det
30	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 thought	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 amuse	mark
32	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 thought	ccomp
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 amuse	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Shepherd		day		tree rules
2	watch	gerund	Shepherd not said here	the Sheep and the quiet forest			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
3	think speech: other	gerund					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	do	would	Shepherd				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	see	should	Shepherd	a Wolf			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus
6	think speech: other	past	Shepherd			of a plan	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	amuse	to-infinitive		Shepherd			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer

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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