The Aesop for Children, The Mother and the Wolf, sentence 5

Surprised but delighted at the prospect of so delicious a meal, the Wolf settled down under an open window, expecting every moment to have the child handed out to him.

Who acts: Wolf · What happens: settle down, expect, have, hand out, prospect · To what, where: open window, child, Wolf, delicious meal

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 (Wolf), 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	Surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 settled	advcl
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 delighted	cc
3	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Surprised	conj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 prospect	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prospect	det
6	prospect	prospect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 delighted	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 meal	case
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 delicious	advmod
9	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 meal	amod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 meal	det
11	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prospect	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 settled	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Wolf	det
14	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 settled	nsubj
15	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 settled	compound:prt
17	under	under	ADP	_	20 window	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 window	det
19	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 window	amod
20	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 settled	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 expecting	punct
22	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 settled	advcl
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 moment	det
24	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 expecting	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 have	mark
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 expecting	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 child	det
28	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
29	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 child	acl
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 handed	compound:prt
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 handed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 settled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	settle down	past	the Wolf			a open window		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	expect	gerund	the Wolf not said here				moment	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have	to-infinitive	the Wolf not said here	the child				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	hand out	participle		the child not said here	Wolf			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	prospect			a delicious meal				nom prospect «state 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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