The Aesop for Children, The Sheep and the Pig, sentence 2
He very quickly captured the porker, which squealed at the top of its voice the moment the Shepherd laid his hands on it.
Who acts: shepherd, porker · What happens: capture, squeal, lay · To what, where: porker, hands, voice
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, porker), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 captured | nsubj |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 captured | advmod |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 captured | advmod |
| 4 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 porker | det |
| 6 | porker | porker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 captured | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 squealed | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 squealed | nsubj |
| 9 | squealed | squeal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 porker | acl:relcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 top | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 top | det |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 squealed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 voice | nmod:poss |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 top | nmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moment | det |
| 17 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Shepherd | det |
| 19 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 laid | nsubj |
| 20 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 moment | acl:relcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hands | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 laid | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 laid | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 captured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture | past | shepherd | the porker | quickly property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porker=Theme | |||
| 2 | squeal | past | the porker | at the top of top's voice the moment | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at top=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | the Shepherd | shepherd's hands | voice | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on it=Destination |
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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