The Aesop for Children, The Mother and the Wolf, sentence 11
Daddy is watching and Daddy will kill him if he should come near!"
Who acts: Daddy · What happens: watch, kill, come · To what, where: Wolf
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 (Daddy), 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 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 watching | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 watching | aux |
| 3 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kill | cc |
| 5 | Daddy | Daddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kill | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 kill | aux |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 watching | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kill | obj |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 kill | advcl |
| 13 | near | near | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 kill | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 watching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present · progressive | Daddy | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | kill | future | Daddy | Wolf | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen | should | Daddy | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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