Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 95
Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume.
Who acts: Sheep, flock · What happens: encase, pasture, deceive · To what, where: skin, shepherd
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 (Sheep, flock), 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 | Encased | encase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pastured | advcl |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 skin | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 skin | det |
| 4 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Encased | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sheep | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sheep | det |
| 7 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skin | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Encased | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pastured | nsubj |
| 10 | pastured | pasture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 flock | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flock | det |
| 13 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pastured | obl |
| 14 | deceiving | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 flock | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shepherd | det |
| 16 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deceiving | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 costume | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 costume | nmod:poss |
| 19 | costume | costume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deceiving | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pastured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encase | participle | Sheep not said here | the skin of a sheep | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pasture | past | Sheep | with the flock | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | deceive | gerund | the flock not said here | the shepherd | by Sheep's costume | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=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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