The Aesop for Children, The Mother and the Wolf, sentence 6
But though the little one continued to fret, the Wolf waited all day in vain.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: continue, fret, wait · To what, where: little one, vain
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 waited | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 one | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waited | advcl |
| 6 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 one | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fret | mark |
| 8 | fret | fret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 continued | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Wolf | det |
| 11 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 waited | nsubj |
| 12 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 vain | case |
| 16 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 waited | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | participle | the little one not said here | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | fret | to-infinitive | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | wait | past | the Wolf | vain | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vain=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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