The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Shepherd, sentence 5
One day he even went so far as to leave his flock in the Wolf's care while he went on an errand.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: go, leave, care · To what, where: flock, care, errand
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), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 far | advmod |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 leave | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 leave | mark |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 leave | mark |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | ccomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 flock | nmod:poss |
| 12 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 care | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Wolf | det |
| 15 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 care | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Wolf | case |
| 17 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | obl |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 went | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 leave | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 errand | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 errand | det |
| 23 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Wolf | day | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | Wolf not said here | Wolf's flock | the Wolf's care | far property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flock=Theme in care=Location | ||
| 3 | go | past | Wolf | a errand | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on errand=Location | ||||
| 4 | care | the Wolf | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/77/5/