Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 96

In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure.

Who acts: shepherd, entrance · What happens: shut up, close, make · To what, where: Sheep, gate

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, entrance), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shut	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shut	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shut	aux:pass
6	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 shut	compound:prt
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 shepherd	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shepherd	det
10	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shut	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 fold	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fold	det
13	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shepherd	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 closed	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gate	det
16	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 closed	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 closed	aux:pass
18	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 shut	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 entrance	det
22	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	nsubj
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shut	parataxis
24	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	23 made	advmod
25	secure	secure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 made	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shut up	past · passive	the shepherd in the fold	Sheep	evening		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	close	past · passive		the gate			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	make	past	the entrance			secure, thoroughly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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