Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 9

The Shepherd boldly examined the beast, discovered the thorn, and placing his paw upon his lap, pulled it out; thus relieved of his pain, the Lion returned into the forest.

Who acts: Shepherd, Lion · What happens: examine, discover, place, pull out, return, pain · To what, where: beast, thorn, paw, lap, forest

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shepherd, Lion), 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	4 examined	nsubj
3	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 examined	advmod
4	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beast	det
6	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 examined	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 discovered	punct
8	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 examined	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thorn	det
10	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 discovered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 placing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 placing	cc
13	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 discovered	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 paw	nmod:poss
15	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 placing	obj
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 lap	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lap	nmod:poss
18	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 placing	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pulled	punct
20	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 discovered	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pulled	obj
22	out	out	ADP	_	20 pulled	compound:prt
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 relieved	punct
24	thus	thus	ADV	_	25 relieved	advmod
25	relieved	relieved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 examined	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 pain	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 pain	nmod:poss
28	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 relieved	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 returned	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Lion	det
31	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 returned	nsubj
32	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 examined	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 forest	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 forest	det
35	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 returned	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 examined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	examine	past	the Shepherd	the beast		boldly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme
2	discover	past	the Shepherd not said here	the thorn			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thorn=Topic
3	place	gerund	the Shepherd not said here	Shepherd's paw	Shepherd's lap		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme upon lap=Destination
4	pull out	past	the Shepherd not said here	thorn			tree rules
5	return	past	the Lion		the forest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
6	pain		Shepherd				nom pain «state 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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