The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid, sentence 2

So one evening when the flock started home from the pasture and his mother called, the Kid paid no heed and kept right on nibbling the tender grass.

Who acts: flock, Kid · What happens: start, call, pay, keep, nibble · To what, where: pasture, mother, heed, tender grass · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Kid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flock, Kid), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 started	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 evening	nummod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 started	obl:unmarked
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 started	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flock	det
6	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 started	nsubj
7	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 started	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 pasture	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pasture	det
11	pasture	pasture	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 started	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mother	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pasture	conj
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 mother	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 paid	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Kid	det
18	Kid	Kid	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 paid	nsubj
19	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 started	conj
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 heed	det
21	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 paid	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 kept	cc
23	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 paid	conj
24	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 kept	xcomp
25	on	on	SCONJ	_	26 nibbling	mark
26	nibbling	nibble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 kept	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 grass	det
28	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grass	compound
29	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nibbling	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	the flock		the pasture and flock's mother	evening	home property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	call	participle		flock's mother not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pay	past	the Kid	no heed				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset
4	keep	past	the Kid not said here				right property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	nibble	gerund	the Kid not said here	the tender grass				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

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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