The Aesop for Children, The Sheep and the Pig, sentence 1
One day a shepherd discovered a fat Pig in the meadow where his Sheep were pastured.
Who acts: shepherd · What happens: discover, pasture · To what, where: fat Pig, meadow, Sheep
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Sheep and the Pig. 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 discovered | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shepherd | det |
| 4 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discovered | nsubj |
| 5 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Pig | det |
| 7 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Pig | amod |
| 8 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discovered | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 meadow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 meadow | det |
| 11 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discovered | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 pastured | advmod |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Sheep | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pastured | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pastured | aux:pass |
| 16 | pastured | pasture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 meadow | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | a shepherd | a fat Pig | the meadow | day | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Topic | ||
| 2 | pasture | past · passive | shepherd's Sheep | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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