The Aesop for Children, The Mother and the Wolf, sentence 12
Just then the Father came within sight of the home, and the Wolf was barely able to save himself from the Dogs by a clever bit of running.
Who acts: Father, Wolf, clever bit · What happens: come, be, save, run, sight · To what, where: Wolf, home
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 (Father, Wolf, clever bit), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Father | det |
| 4 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 home | det |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 able | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 able | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Wolf | det |
| 14 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 able | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 able | cop |
| 16 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 17 able | advmod |
| 17 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 came | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 save | mark |
| 19 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | xcomp |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 save | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Dogs | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Dogs | det |
| 23 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 save | obl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 bit | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bit | det |
| 26 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bit | amod |
| 27 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 save | obl |
| 28 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 running | mark |
| 29 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 bit | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Father | then | within sight of the home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the Wolf | able, barely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive | the Wolf not said here | Wolf | from the Dogs; by a clever bit | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from dog=Source | |||
| 4 | run | gerund | a clever bit not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sight | the home | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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