Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 77

The Wolf, having shown himself an apt pupil, said to the Shepherd, “Since you have taught me to steal, you must keep a sharp lookout, or you will lose some of your own flock.”

Who acts: Wolf, Shepherd · What happens: show, say, teach, steal, keep, lose · To what, where: Wolf, Shepherd, sharp lookout, some · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Wolf, Shepherd), 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 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shown	punct
4	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 shown	aux
5	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Wolf	acl
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 shown	obj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pupil	det
8	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pupil	amod
9	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shown	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wolf	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Shepherd	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Shepherd	det
14	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 keep	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 keep	punct
17	Since	since	SCONJ	_	20 taught	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 taught	nsubj:pass
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 taught	aux
20	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 keep	advcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 taught	iobj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 steal	mark
23	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 taught	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 taught	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 keep	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 keep	aux
27	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 lookout	det
29	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lookout	amod
30	lookout	lookout	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 keep	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 lose	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 lose	cc
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 lose	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 lose	aux
35	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	parataxis
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 lose	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 flock	case
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 flock	nmod:poss
39	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 flock	amod
40	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 some	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 lose	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	35 lose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	show	gerund · perfect	the Wolf not said here	Wolf		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient pupil=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the Wolf		the Shepherd	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to shepherd=Recipient clause=Topic
3	teach speech: other in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the Shepherd = shepherd	the Wolf = wolf	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic
4	steal in a quote	to-infinitive				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	keep in a quote	must	the Shepherd = shepherd	a sharp lookout		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lookout=Theme
6	lose in a quote	future	the Shepherd = shepherd	some		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Eventuality

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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