Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 44
A SHEPHERD-BOY, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, “Wolf!
Who acts: SHEPHERD, village · What happens: watch, bring out, cry out · To what, where: flock, village, villagers
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SHEPHERD, village), 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 SHEPHERD | det |
| 2 | SHEPHERD | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watched | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 BOY | punct |
| 4 | BOY | BOY | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 SHEPHERD | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 watched | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 watched | nsubj |
| 7 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 flock | det |
| 9 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watched | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sheep | case |
| 11 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flock | nmod |
| 12 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 village | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 village | det |
| 14 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watched | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 village | acl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 brought | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 villagers | det |
| 19 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 brought | obj |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 times | nummod |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 four | cc |
| 22 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 three | conj |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 villagers | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 crying | mark |
| 25 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 brought | advcl |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 crying | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Wolf | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Wolf | punct |
| 29 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watched | obl |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | a SHEPHERD | a flock of sheep | a village | Wolf obl | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme | ||
| 2 | bring out | participle | a village not said here | the villagers | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent villager=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | gerund | a village not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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