Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 48

When the Shepherd returned to find his flock destroyed, he exclaimed: “I have been rightly served; why did I trust my sheep to a Wolf?”

Who acts: Shepherd, flock · What happens: return, find, destroy, exclaim, serve, trust · To what, where: Shepherd, sheep, Wolf · 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, flock), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 returned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Shepherd	det
3	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 returned	nsubj
4	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 exclaimed	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 returned	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 flock	nmod:poss
8	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 destroyed	nsubj
9	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 find	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 returned	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 exclaimed	nsubj
12	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 exclaimed	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 served	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 served	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 served	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 served	aux:pass
18	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	19 served	advmod
19	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 exclaimed	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 trust	punct
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	24 trust	advmod
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 trust	aux
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 trust	nsubj
24	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 exclaimed	ccomp
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 sheep	nmod:poss
26	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 trust	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 Wolf	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 Wolf	det
29	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 trust	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 trust	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 trust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	return	past	the Shepherd				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive	the Shepherd not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	destroy	past	Shepherd's flock				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	exclaim speech: express	past	Shepherd				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	serve in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Shepherd		rightly property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
6	trust in a quote	past · do-support	Shepherd	my sheep	a Wolf		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme to wolf=Recipient

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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