The Aesop for Children, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats, sentence 5
"Is that the thanks I get for feeding you and treating you so well?" complained the Shepherd.
Who acts: Shepherd · What happens: get, feed, treat, be · To what, where: thanks, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 complained | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 complained | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 complained | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thanks | det |
| 5 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 complained | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thanks | acl:relcl |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 feeding | mark |
| 9 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 get | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 feeding | iobj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 treating | cc |
| 12 | treating | treat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 feeding | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 treating | obj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 well | advmod |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 treating | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 thanks | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thanks | punct |
| 18 | complained | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Shepherd | det |
| 20 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 complained | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 complained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present | the Shepherd = shepherd | the thanks not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thanks=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | feed in a quote | gerund | the Shepherd = shepherd not said here | you | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | treat in a quote | gerund | the Shepherd = shepherd not said here | you | well property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 4 | be speech: other | present | the Shepherd | complain property | tree rules |
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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