Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 45

The Shepherd at first stood on his guard against him, as against an enemy, and kept a strict watch over his movements.

Who acts: Shepherd · What happens: stand, keep, move · To what, where: guard, strict watch, movements

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Shepherd	det
2	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 first	case
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 stood	obl
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 guard	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 guard	nmod:poss
8	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
9	against	against	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stood	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 enemy	punct
12	as	as	ADP	_	15 enemy	case
13	against	against	ADP	_	15 enemy	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 enemy	det
15	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kept	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kept	cc
18	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 watch	det
20	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 watch	amod
21	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kept	obj
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 movements	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 movements	nmod:poss
24	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kept	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the Shepherd		Shepherd's guard	against crow; as a enemy	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at first=Location
2	keep	past	the Shepherd not said here	a strict watch	Shepherd's movements		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over movement=Location
3	move		Shepherd				nom movement «act transitive»: poss=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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