Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 107
A HERDSMAN tending his flock in a forest lost a Bull-calf from the fold.
Who acts: HERDSMAN, forest · What happens: tend, lose · To what, where: flock, forest, Bull calf, fold
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (HERDSMAN, forest), 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 HERDSMAN | det |
| 2 | HERDSMAN | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | tending | tend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 HERDSMAN | acl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 flock | nmod:poss |
| 5 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tending | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tending | obl |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 forest | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 calf | det |
| 11 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 calf | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Bull | punct |
| 13 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lost | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 fold | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fold | det |
| 16 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 calf | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 HERDSMAN | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tend | gerund | a HERDSMAN not said here | Bull's flock | a forest | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme | |||
| 2 | lose | participle | a forest not said here | a Bull calf | the fold | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent calf=Theme from fold=Initial_Location |
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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