Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 47

The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: “Pray, do come and help me; the Wolf is killing the sheep;” but no one paid any heed to his cries, nor rendered any assistance.

Who acts: Wolf, Shepherd boy · What happens: alarm, shout, pray, come, help, kill · To what, where: Shepherd boy, agony, village, sheep, heed, assistance · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Wolf, Shepherd boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
2	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Shepherd	punct
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 paid	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 alarmed	punct
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 alarmed	advmod
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 alarmed	advmod
8	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 boy	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shouted	punct
10	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 alarmed	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 agony	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 agony	det
13	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shouted	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 terror	case
15	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 agony	nmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 Pray	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 Pray	punct
18	Pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
21	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 Pray	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 help	cc
23	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 come	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 help	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 killing	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Wolf	det
27	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 killing	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 killing	aux
29	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 Pray	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sheep	det
31	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 killing	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 killing	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 Pray	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 one	cc
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 one	det
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	conj
37	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
38	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 heed	det
39	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 paid	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 cries	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 cries	nmod:poss
42	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 paid	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 rendered	punct
44	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	45 rendered	cc
45	rendered	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 paid	conj
46	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	47 assistance	det
47	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 rendered	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	alarm	participle		the Shepherd boy but no one not said here			now		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	shout speech: express	participle				a agony of terror			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pray in a quote	infinitive							vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	come in a quote	infinitive · do-support							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	help in a quote	infinitive			a village = village				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
6	kill in a quote	present · progressive	the Wolf	the sheep					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
7	pay	past	the Shepherd boy but no one	any heed				to Wolf's cries	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset
8	render	past	the Shepherd boy but no one not said here	any assistance					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme
9	cry		Wolf						nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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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