The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, sentence 8
As he expected, the Villagers who heard the cry dropped their work and ran in great excitement to the pasture.
Who acts: Shepherd, Villagers · What happens: expect, hear, drop, run, work · To what, where: cry, work, great excitement
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, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 expected | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 expected | nsubj |
| 3 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dropped | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 expected | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Villagers | det |
| 6 | Villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dropped | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Villagers | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cry | det |
| 10 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 11 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 work | nmod:poss |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dropped | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dropped | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 excitement | case |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 excitement | amod |
| 18 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 pasture | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pasture | det |
| 21 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past | Shepherd | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | the Villagers | the cry | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | drop | past | the Villagers | Villagers's work | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | past | the Villagers not said here | great excitement | to the pasture result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to pasture=Result | |||
| 5 | work | Villagers = villager | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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