The Aesop for Children, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats, sentence 4
When the weather cleared, and the Shepherd led the Goats out to feed, the Wild Goats scampered off to the hills.
Who acts: weather, Shepherd · What happens: clear, lead, feed, scamper off · To what, where: Wild Goats, hills
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 (weather, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 cleared | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 weather | det |
| 3 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cleared | nsubj |
| 4 | cleared | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 led | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Shepherd | det |
| 8 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | nsubj |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cleared | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Goats | det |
| 11 | Goats | Goat | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 out | nsubj |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 led | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 feed | mark |
| 14 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 led | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Goats | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Goats | det |
| 17 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Goats | amod |
| 18 | Goats | Goat | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 feed | obj |
| 19 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 Goats | acl |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 scampered | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 hills | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hills | det |
| 23 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 scampered | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cleared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clear | past | the weather | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 2 | lead | past | the Shepherd | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | feed | to-infinitive | the Shepherd not said here | the Wild Goats | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | scamper off | participle | the Wild Goats not said here | the hills | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hill=Destination |
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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