The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, sentence 5
His Master had told him to call for help should a Wolf attack the flock, and the Villagers would drive it away.
Who acts: Villagers · What happens: tell, call, drive away · To what, where: Master, Shepherd, flock · 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 (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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Master | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 call | mark |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 attack | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 help | case |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 call | obl |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 attack | aux |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 attack | det |
| 12 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 attack | compound |
| 13 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flock | det |
| 15 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 attack | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drive | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drive | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Villagers | det |
| 19 | Villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 drive | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 drive | aux |
| 21 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 drive | obj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 drive | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | Shepherd's Master | Shepherd | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | call | to-infinitive | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | drive away | would | the Villagers | flock | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
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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