The Aesop for Children, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, sentence 6
But it happened that the Shepherd took a fancy for mutton broth that very evening, and, picking up a knife, went to the fold.
Who acts: it, Shepherd, that · What happens: happen, take, evening, pick up, go · To what, where: fancy, knife, fold
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Shepherd, that), 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 | _ | 3 happened | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 took | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Shepherd | det |
| 6 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fancy | det |
| 9 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 broth | case |
| 11 | mutton | mutton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 broth | compound |
| 12 | broth | broth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fancy | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 evening | nsubj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 evening | advmod |
| 15 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 broth | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 picking | punct |
| 19 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 went | advcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 picking | compound:prt |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 knife | det |
| 22 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 picking | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 picking | punct |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 fold | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fold | det |
| 27 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the Shepherd | a fancy | for mutton broth | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme for broth=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | evening | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | pick up | gerund | a knife | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go | past | the Shepherd not said here | the fold | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fold=Initial_Location |
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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