The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Shepherd, sentence 1
A Wolf had been prowling around a flock of Sheep for a long time, and the Shepherd watched very anxiously to prevent him from carrying off a Lamb.
Who acts: Wolf, Shepherd · What happens: prowl, watch, prevent, carry off · To what, where: flock, Shepherd, Lamb
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Shepherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prowling | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prowling | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 prowling | aux |
| 5 | prowling | prowl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 flock | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 flock | det |
| 8 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prowling | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Sheep | case |
| 10 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flock | nmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prowling | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 watched | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 watched | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Shepherd | det |
| 18 | Shepherd | Shepherd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 watched | nsubj |
| 19 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prowling | conj |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 anxiously | advmod |
| 21 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 19 watched | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 prevent | mark |
| 23 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 watched | xcomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 prevent | obj |
| 25 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 26 carrying | mark |
| 26 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 prevent | advcl |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 carrying | compound:prt |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Lamb | det |
| 29 | Lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 carrying | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prowling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prowl | past · perfect · progressive | a Wolf | a flock of Sheep | time | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around flock=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | watch | past | the Shepherd | anxiously property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prevent | to-infinitive | the Shepherd not said here | Shepherd | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry off | gerund | the Shepherd not said here | a Lamb | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=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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