The Aesop for Children, The Sheep and the Pig, sentence 5
The Sheep in the pasture were much astonished and amused at the Pig's behavior, and followed the Shepherd and his charge to the pasture gate.
Who acts: Sheep, shepherd · What happens: be, follow, charge · To what, where: behavior, Shepherd, pasture gate
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 (Sheep, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sheep | det |
| 2 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 pasture | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pasture | det |
| 5 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sheep | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 astonished | cop |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 astonished | advmod |
| 8 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 amused | cc |
| 10 | amused | amused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 astonished | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 behavior | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Pig | det |
| 13 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 behavior | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Pig | case |
| 15 | behavior | behavior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 amused | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 followed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 followed | cc |
| 18 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 astonished | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Shepherd | det |
| 20 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 followed | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 charge | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 charge | nmod:poss |
| 23 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Shepherd | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 gate | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 gate | det |
| 26 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gate | compound |
| 27 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 followed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Sheep in the pasture | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the Sheep in the pasture not said here | the Pig's behavior | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | follow | past | the Shepherd and shepherd's charge | the pasture gate | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shepherd=Theme to gate=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | charge | shepherd | nom charge «act transitive»: 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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