The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the House Dog, sentence 5
So the Wolf spoke very humbly to the Dog, complimenting him on his fine appearance.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: speak, compliment · To what, where: Wolf, fine appearance · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wolf | det |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 humbly | advmod |
| 6 | humbly | humbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spoke | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Dog | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Dog | det |
| 9 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 humbly | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 complimenting | punct |
| 11 | complimenting | compliment | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 spoke | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 complimenting | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 appearance | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 appearance | amod |
| 16 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 complimenting | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the Wolf | humbly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | compliment | gerund | the Wolf not said here | Wolf | Wolf's fine appearance | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «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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