The Aesop for Children, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats, sentence 3
But to his own flock, he gave only just enough food to keep them alive.
Who acts: Shepherd · What happens: give, keep · To what, where: enough food, own flock, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 flock | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 flock | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flock | amod |
| 5 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 flock | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 enough | advmod |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 enough | advmod |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 food | amod |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 keep | mark |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gave | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 keep | obj |
| 16 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 keep | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Shepherd | enough food | Shepherd's own flock | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent food=Theme to flock=Recipient | |||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | Shepherd not said here | Goats = goat | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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