Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 18

When the Shepherd came down and saw what was done, he said, “O you most ungrateful creatures!

Who acts: Shepherd, cloak, you · What happens: come down, see, be, say, creature · Speech: someone speaks here

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, you), 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	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Shepherd	det
3	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	advcl
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 saw	cc
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 done	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 done	cop
10	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 saw	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 creatures	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 creatures	punct
16	O	o	INTJ	_	20 creatures	discourse
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 creatures	nsubj
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 ungrateful	advmod
19	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 creatures	amod
20	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come down	past	the Shepherd	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	the Shepherd not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past		done property	tree rules
4	say speech: express	past	cloak		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	creature in a quote		you		tree rules

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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