Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 70

The next day it snowed very hard, so that he could not take the herd to their usual feeding places, but was obliged to keep them in the fold.

Who acts: it, Dog · What happens: snow, not take, oblige, keep · To what, where: herd, usual feeding places, Goatherd, fold

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 (it, Dog), 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	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snowed	obl:unmarked
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 snowed	nsubj
5	snowed	snow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 snowed	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 take	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 take	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 take	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 take	advmod
14	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 snowed	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 herd	det
16	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 take	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 places	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 places	nmod:poss
19	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 places	amod
20	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 places	compound
21	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 take	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 obliged	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 obliged	cc
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 obliged	aux:pass
25	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 snowed	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 keep	mark
27	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 obliged	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 keep	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 fold	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fold	det
31	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 keep	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 snowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snow	past	it			day	hard property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	not take	could	Dog	the herd	Goatherd's usual feeding places			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herd=Theme to place=Destination
3	oblige	past · passive						vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»
4	keep	to-infinitive		Goatherd	the fold			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in fold=Location

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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