The Aesop for Children, The Sheep and the Pig, sentence 4

But in spite of its squeals and struggles to escape, the Shepherd tucked his prize under his arm and started off to the butcher's in the market place.

Who acts: Shepherd, spite · What happens: escape, tuck, start off, spite, squeal · To what, where: prize, spite, market place, squeals

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, spite), 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	_	14 tucked	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 spite	case
3	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tucked	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 squeals	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 squeals	nmod:poss
6	squeals	squeal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spite	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 struggles	cc
8	struggles	struggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 squeals	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 escape	mark
10	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 struggles	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spite	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Shepherd	det
13	Shepherd	Shepherd	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 tucked	nsubj
14	tucked	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 prize	nmod:poss
16	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tucked	obj
17	under	under	ADP	_	19 arm	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 arm	nmod:poss
19	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tucked	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 started	cc
21	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tucked	conj
22	off	off	ADP	_	21 started	compound:prt
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 butcher	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 butcher	det
25	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 started	obl
26	's	's	PART	_	25 butcher	case
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 place	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 place	det
29	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 place	compound
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 started	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 tucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	escape	to-infinitive	the Shepherd not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tuck	past	the Shepherd	shepherd's prize	spite of spite's squeals and struggles	under shepherd's arm	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent prize=Theme in spite=Trajectory
3	start off	past	the Shepherd not said here		the market place	to the butcher	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	spite			spite's squeals and struggles			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
5	squeal		spite				nom squeal «event 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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