Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 42

At the approach of the evening the herdsman came to feed his cattle, but did not see the Stag; and even the farm-bailiff with several laborers passed through the shed and failed to notice him.

Who acts: herdsman, several laborers, evening · What happens: come, feed, not see, pass, fail, not notice · To what, where: approach, cattle, Stag, shed

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herdsman, several laborers, evening), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 approach	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 approach	det
3	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 evening	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 evening	det
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 approach	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 herdsman	det
8	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 feed	mark
11	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 came	xcomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cattle	nmod:poss
13	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 see	cc
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 see	advmod
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 feed	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Stag	det
20	Stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 bailiff	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bailiff	cc
23	even	even	ADV	_	27 bailiff	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bailiff	det
25	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bailiff	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 farm	punct
27	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	parataxis
28	with	with	SCONJ	_	31 passed	mark
29	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 laborers	amod
30	laborers	laborer	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 passed	nsubj
31	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bailiff	advcl
32	through	through	ADP	_	34 shed	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 shed	det
34	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 passed	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 failed	cc
36	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 passed	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 notice	mark
38	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 failed	xcomp
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 notice	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	the herdsman			the approach of the evening	tree rules
2	feed	to-infinitive	the herdsman not said here		herdsman's cattle		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Recipient
3	not see	past · do-support	the herdsman not said here	the Stag			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stag=Stimulus
4	pass	past	several laborers			the shed	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through shed=Location
5	fail	past	several laborers not said here				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	not notice	to-infinitive	several laborers not said here	Stag			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
7	approach		the evening				nom approach «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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