The Aesop for Children, The Kid and the Wolf, sentence 2

The Kid was browsing near the edge of the roof, when he spied a Wolf and began to jeer at him, making faces and abusing him to his heart's content.

Who acts: Kid · What happens: browse, spy, begin, jeer, make, abuse · To what, where: edge, Wolf, faces, Kid

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Kid and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kid), 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 Kid	det
2	Kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 browsing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 browsing	aux
4	browsing	browse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 edge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 edge	det
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 browsing	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 roof	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 roof	det
10	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 edge	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spied	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 spied	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 spied	nsubj
14	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 browsing	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Wolf	det
16	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 spied	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 spied	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 jeer	mark
20	jeer	jeer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 jeer	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 making	punct
24	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 jeer	advcl
25	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 making	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 abusing	cc
27	abusing	abuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 making	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 abusing	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	33 content	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 heart	nmod:poss
31	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 content	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 heart	case
33	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 abusing	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 browsing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	browse	past · progressive	the Kid		the edge of the roof		tree rules
2	spy	past	Kid	a Wolf			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus
3	begin	past	Kid not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	jeer	to-infinitive	Kid not said here			at Kid	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	gerund	Kid not said here	faces			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=Product
6	abuse	gerund	Kid not said here	Kid		to Kid's heart's content	vn judgment-33.1 «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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