Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 125

On one occasion the shepherd laid hold of him, when he grunted, and squeaked, and resisted violently.

Who acts: shepherd · What happens: lay, grunt, squeak, resist, hold · To what, where: hold, one occasion, Sheep

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 occasion	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 occasion	nummod
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shepherd	det
5	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	nsubj
6	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hold	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grunted	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 grunted	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grunted	nsubj
13	grunted	grunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laid	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 squeaked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 squeaked	cc
16	squeaked	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grunted	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 resisted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 resisted	cc
19	resisted	resist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 squeaked	conj
20	violently	violently	ADV	_	19 resisted	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	the shepherd	hold of Sheep	one occasion		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme on occasion=Destination
2	grunt	past	shepherd				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	squeak	past	shepherd not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	resist	past	shepherd not said here			violently property	tree rules
5	hold			Sheep			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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