Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 100
A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed all of a sudden by the cries of the enemy.
Who acts: SHEPHERD, cries, Ass, enemy · What happens: watch, alarm, feed, cry · To what, where: Ass feeding, meadow, SHEPHERD
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SHEPHERD, cries, Ass, enemy), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 SHEPHERD | det |
| 2 | SHEPHERD | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 watching | punct |
| 4 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 SHEPHERD | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feeding | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feeding | compound |
| 7 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watching | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 meadow | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 meadow | det |
| 10 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watching | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 SHEPHERD | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 13 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 alarmed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sudden | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sudden | det |
| 17 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 all | nmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 cries | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cries | det |
| 20 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 alarmed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 enemy | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 enemy | det |
| 23 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cries | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 alarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | a SHEPHERD not said here | Ass's Ass feeding | a meadow | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeding=Theme | |||
| 2 | alarm | past · passive | the cries of the enemy | a SHEPHERD | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer all=Result | ||||
| 3 | feed | Ass | nom feeding «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | cry | the enemy | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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