The Aesop for Children, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats, sentence 2

The Shepherd wanted to make the Wild Goats part of his flock; so he fed them well.

Who acts: Shepherd · What happens: want, make, feed · To what, where: Wild Goats, Goats

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Shepherd	det
2	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Goats	det
7	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Goats	amod
8	Goats	Goat	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
9	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Goats	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 flock	case
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	9 part	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 fed	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 fed	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fed	nsubj
16	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fed	obj
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 fed	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	the Shepherd			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Shepherd not said here	the Wild Goats and part of Shepherd's flock		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset goat=Product
3	feed	past	Shepherd	Goats = goat	well property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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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