Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 16

A SHEPHERD driving his Sheep to a wood, saw an oak of unusual size full of acorns, and spreading his cloak under the branches, he climbed up into the tree and shook them down.

Who acts: SHEPHERD, cloak · What happens: drive, see, spread, climb up, shake down · To what, where: Sheep, wood, oak, cloak, branches, tree

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SHEPHERD, cloak), 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	10 saw	nsubj
3	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 SHEPHERD	acl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 Sheep	nmod:poss
5	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 driving	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 driving	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 SHEPHERD	punct
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 oak	det
12	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 size	case
14	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 size	amod
15	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 oak	nmod
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 size	amod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 acorns	case
18	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 full	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spreading	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 spreading	cc
21	spreading	spread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 saw	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 cloak	nmod:poss
23	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spreading	obj
24	under	under	ADP	_	26 branches	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 branches	det
26	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spreading	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 climbed	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 climbed	nsubj
29	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saw	parataxis
30	up	up	ADV	_	29 climbed	advmod
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 tree	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tree	det
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 climbed	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 shook	cc
35	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 climbed	conj
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 shook	obj
37	down	down	ADP	_	35 shook	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	drive	gerund	a SHEPHERD not said here	cloak's Sheep	a wood	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme to wood=Trajectory
2	see	past	a SHEPHERD	a oak of unusual size		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oak=Stimulus
3	spread	gerund		cloak's cloak	the branches	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme under branch=Destination
4	climb up	past	cloak		the tree	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination
5	shake down	past	cloak not said here	Sheep		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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