The Aesop for Children, The Mother and the Wolf, sentence 1
Early one morning a hungry Wolf was prowling around a cottage at the edge of a village, when he heard a child crying in the house.
Who acts: hungry Wolf, Wolf, child · What happens: prowl, hear, cry · To what, where: cottage, child, house
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mother 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 (hungry Wolf, Wolf, child), 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 | Early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | compound |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prowling | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Wolf | det |
| 5 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Wolf | amod |
| 6 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 prowling | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 prowling | aux |
| 8 | prowling | prowl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 11 cottage | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cottage | det |
| 11 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prowling | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 edge | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 edge | det |
| 14 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prowling | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 village | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 village | det |
| 17 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 edge | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 heard | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 prowling | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 child | det |
| 23 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | obj |
| 24 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 child | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 crying | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 prowling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prowl | past · progressive | a hungry Wolf | a cottage | morning | at the edge of a village | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around cottage=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | hear | past | Wolf | a child | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | a child not said here | the house | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
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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