Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 97

But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly.

Who acts: shepherd · What happens: return, obtain, catch up, kill · To what, where: meat, 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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	21 caught	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 caught	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 returning	punct
5	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 shepherd	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 fold	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fold	det
8	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returning	obl
9	during	during	ADP	_	11 night	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 returning	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 obtain	mark
13	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 returning	advcl
14	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 obtain	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 day	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
17	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 obtain	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 caught	punct
20	mistakenly	mistakenly	ADV	_	21 caught	advmod
21	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 caught	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Wolf	det
24	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 caught	obj
25	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	28 sheep	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 instead	fixed
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 sheep	det
28	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 caught	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 killed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 killed	cc
31	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 caught	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 killed	obj
33	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	31 killed	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	gerund	the shepherd not said here		night	to the fold result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fold=Result
2	obtain	to-infinitive	the shepherd not said here	meat	day		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meat=Theme
3	catch up	participle · passive		the shepherd		instead a sheep; mistakenly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary wolf=Theme
4	kill	past		shepherd		instantly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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