Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 76

A SHEPHERD once found the whelp of a Wolf and brought it up, and after a while taught it to steal lambs from the neighboring flocks.

Who acts: SHEPHERD, neighboring · What happens: find, bring up, teach, steal, flock · To what, where: whelp, lambs

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SHEPHERD, neighboring), 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	4 found	nsubj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 found	advmod
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 whelp	det
6	whelp	whelp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Wolf	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Wolf	det
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 whelp	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brought	cc
11	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 brought	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 brought	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 taught	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 taught	cc
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 while	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 while	det
18	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taught	obl
19	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 taught	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 steal	mark
22	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 taught	xcomp
23	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 steal	obj
24	from	from	SCONJ	_	27 flocks	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 neighboring	det
26	neighboring	neighboring	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flocks	nsubj
27	flocks	flock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 steal	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	a SHEPHERD	the whelp of a Wolf			once property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whelp=Topic
2	bring up	past	a SHEPHERD not said here	whelp				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	teach speech: other	past	a SHEPHERD not said here		whelp	while		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
4	steal	to-infinitive	a SHEPHERD not said here	lambs				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lamb=Theme
5	flock	present	the neighboring					vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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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