The Aesop for Children, The Sheep and the Pig, sentence 7
The Shepherd often catches and carries off one of us.
Who acts: Shepherd · What happens: catch, carry off · To what, where: one
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Shepherd | det |
| 2 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 catches | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 catches | advmod |
| 4 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 carries | cc |
| 6 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 catches | conj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 carries | compound:prt |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 carries | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 one | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 catches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present | the Shepherd | often property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | carry off | present | the Shepherd not said here | one of us | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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