The Aesop for Children, The Mother and the Wolf, sentence 4
Stop your crying, or I will give you to the Wolf!"
Who acts: you, I, your · What happens: stop, give, cry · To what, where: crying, you
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 (you, I, your), 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 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 crying | nmod:poss |
| 3 | crying | crying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stop | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 give | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Stop | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Wolf | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Wolf | det |
| 12 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stop | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | your crying | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality crying=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | you | to the Wolf | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to wolf=Recipient | |||
| 3 | cry | your | nom crying «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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