The Aesop for Children, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats, sentence 1
One cold stormy day a Goatherd drove his Goats for shelter into a cave, where a number of Wild Goats had also found their way.
Who acts: Goatherd · What happens: drive, find · To what, where: Goats, cave, number
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goatherd), 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 | 4 day | nummod |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 3 | stormy | stormy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drove | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Goatherd | det |
| 6 | Goatherd | Goatherd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 drove | nsubj |
| 7 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Goats | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 drove | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 shelter | case |
| 11 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drove | obl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 cave | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cave | det |
| 14 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drove | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 found | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 number | det |
| 18 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Goats | case |
| 20 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Goats | amod |
| 21 | Goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 number | nmod |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 found | aux |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 found | advmod |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cave | acl:relcl |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 way | nmod:poss |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | a Goatherd | Goatherd's Goats | a cave | day | for shelter | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent goat=Theme into cave=Trajectory | |
| 2 | find | past · perfect · passive | a number of Wild Goats | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme way=Attribute |
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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