The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the House Dog, sentence 1

There was once a Wolf who got very little to eat because the Dogs of the village were so wide awake and watchful.

Who acts: Wolf, little, Dogs · What happens: be, get, eat · To what, where: little

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the House Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, little, Dogs), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 got	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Wolf	det
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	advcl
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 little	advmod
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 eat	mark
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 little	xcomp
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 awake	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Dogs	det
14	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 awake	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 village	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 village	det
17	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Dogs	nmod
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 awake	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 awake	advmod
20	wide	wide	ADV	_	21 awake	advmod
21	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eat	advcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 watchful	cc
23	watchful	watchful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 awake	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	a Wolf	little		once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus
3	eat	to-infinitive	little not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the Dogs of the village			awake, wide property	tree rules
5	be		the Dogs of the village not said here				tree rules

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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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