The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the House Dog, sentence 3
One night this Wolf happened to fall in with a fine fat House Dog who had wandered a little too far from home.
Who acts: Wolf, fine fat · What happens: happen, fall in, wander · To what, where: little, home
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, fine fat), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Wolf | det |
| 4 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fall | mark |
| 7 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happened | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 fall | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 fat | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fat | det |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fat | amod |
| 12 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fall | obl |
| 13 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Dog | compound |
| 14 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fat | appos |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 wandered | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wandered | aux |
| 17 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 fat | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 little | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wandered | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 far | advmod |
| 21 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 wandered | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 home | case |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wandered | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | this Wolf | night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall in | to-infinitive | this Wolf not said here | with a fine fat | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wander | past · perfect | a fine fat | a little | home | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from home=Trajectory |
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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