Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 73

The Goatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in leaving him, when during the storm he had taken more care of them than of his own herd.

Who acts: Goatherd, ingratitude, thaw, Goats · What happens: scold, leave, take, care · To what, where: Goats, thaw, more care

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 (Goatherd, ingratitude, thaw, Goats), 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	2 Goatherd	det
2	Goatherd	Goatherd	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 scolded	nsubj
3	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scolded	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 ingratitude	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ingratitude	nmod:poss
7	ingratitude	ingratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scolded	obl
8	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 leaving	mark
9	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 ingratitude	acl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 leaving	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taken	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 taken	mark
13	during	during	ADP	_	15 storm	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 storm	det
15	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taken	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	aux
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 scolded	conj
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 care	amod
20	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 care	nmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	27 herd	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 herd	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 herd	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 herd	amod
27	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 scolded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	scold	past	the Goatherd	Goats = goat		for Goats's ingratitude	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for ingratitude=Attribute
2	leave	gerund	Goats's ingratitude not said here	thaw			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	take	past · perfect	thaw	more care of Goats	during the storm	than thaw's own herd	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	care		Goats = goat				nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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