The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Shepherd, sentence 4
At last the Shepherd got so used to seeing the Wolf about that he forgot how wicked he could be.
Who acts: Shepherd · What happens: use, see, forget, be · To what, where: last, Wolf · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Shepherd | det |
| 4 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 last | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 used | aux:pass |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 used | advmod |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 9 seeing | mark |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 used | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Wolf | det |
| 11 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 seeing | obj |
| 12 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 15 forgot | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 forgot | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 forgot | nsubj |
| 15 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seeing | advcl |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 wicked | advmod |
| 17 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 forgot | xcomp |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 be | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 be | aux |
| 20 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wicked | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | last | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the Wolf | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | forget | past | Shepherd | wicked property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | can | could | Shepherd | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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