Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 46

But when the Wolf, day after day, kept in the company of the sheep and did not make the slightest effort to seize them, the Shepherd began to look upon him as a guardian of his flock rather than as a plotter of evil against it; and when occasion called him one day into the city, he left the sheep entirely in his charge.

Who acts: Shepherd, occasion · What happens: keep, not make, seize, begin, look, call · To what, where: Wolf, company, slightest effort, Shepherd, city, sheep · Speech: someone speaks here

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, occasion), 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	_	10 kept	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 kept	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Wolf	det
4	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 kept	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 day	punct
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Wolf	appos
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 day	case
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
10	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 company	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 company	det
13	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 sheep	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sheep	det
16	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 company	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 make	cc
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 make	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 make	advmod
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 kept	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 effort	det
22	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 effort	amod
23	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 seize	mark
25	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 effort	acl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 seize	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 began	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Shepherd	det
29	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 began	nsubj
30	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 make	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 look	mark
32	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 began	xcomp
33	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 look	obl
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 guardian	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 guardian	det
37	guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 look	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 flock	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 flock	nmod:poss
40	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 guardian	nmod
41	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	45 plotter	cc
42	than	than	ADP	_	41 rather	fixed
43	as	as	ADP	_	41 rather	fixed
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 plotter	det
45	plotter	plotter	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 flock	conj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 evil	case
47	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 plotter	nmod
48	against	against	ADP	_	49 it	case
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 evil	nmod
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	63 left	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 left	cc
52	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	54 called	advmod
53	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 called	nsubj
54	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 left	advcl
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 called	obj
56	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	57 day	nummod
57	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 called	obl:unmarked
58	into	into	ADP	_	60 city	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 city	det
60	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 called	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 called	punct
62	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 left	nsubj
63	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 kept	parataxis
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 sheep	det
65	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 left	obj
66	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	63 left	advmod
67	in	in	ADP	_	69 charge	case
68	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 charge	nmod:poss
69	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 left	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	participle · passive		the Wolf	the company of the sheep			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in company=Location
2	not make	past · do-support		the slightest effort				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset effort=Product
3	seize	to-infinitive		Wolf				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	begin	past	the Shepherd					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	look	to-infinitive	the Shepherd not said here				upon Shepherd; as a guardian of Shepherd's flock rather a plotter of evil against flock	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon he=Theme
6	call	past	occasion	Shepherd	the city	day		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic into city=Recipient
7	leave	past	Shepherd	the sheep	Shepherd's charge		entirely property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme in charge=Location
8	charge		Shepherd					nom charge «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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