The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, sentence 9
But when they got there they found the Boy doubled up with laughter at the trick he had played on them.
Who acts: Villagers, Boy · What happens: get, find, double up, play · To what, where: trick
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, Boy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 doubled | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 doubled | advcl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Boy | det |
| 9 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 doubled | nsubj |
| 10 | doubled | double | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 doubled | compound:prt |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 laughter | case |
| 13 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 doubled | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 trick | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trick | det |
| 16 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 doubled | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 played | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 played | aux |
| 19 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 trick | acl:relcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 played | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 doubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Villagers = villager | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Villagers = villager | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | double up | past | the Boy | the trick | with laughter | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with laughter=Instrument | |||
| 4 | play | past · perfect | Boy | the trick not said here | on Villagers = villager | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |
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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