The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Shepherd, sentence 3
Instead he seemed to be helping the Shepherd take care of the Sheep.
Who acts: Wolf, Shepherd · What happens: seem, help, take · To what, where: Shepherd, care
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 | Instead | instead | ADV | _ | 3 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 helping | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 helping | aux |
| 6 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Shepherd | det |
| 8 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 helping | obj |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 helping | xcomp |
| 10 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Sheep | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sheep | det |
| 13 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 take | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Wolf | instead property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive · progressive | Wolf not said here | the Shepherd | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent shepherd=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | the Shepherd not said here | care | of the Sheep | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of sheep=Initial_Location |
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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