The Aesop for Children, The Mother and the Wolf, sentence 7
Then, toward nightfall, he heard the Mother's voice again as she sat down near the window to sing and rock her baby to sleep.
Who acts: Wolf, voice · What happens: hear, sit down, sing, sleep · To what, where: voice, window, baby
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, voice), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 heard | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 4 nightfall | case |
| 4 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nightfall | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mother | det |
| 9 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 voice | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Mother | case |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 heard | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 sat | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sat | nsubj |
| 15 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | advcl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 sat | compound:prt |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 window | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 window | det |
| 19 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sat | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 sing | mark |
| 21 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sat | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rock | cc |
| 23 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sing | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 baby | nmod:poss |
| 25 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sing | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 sleep | mark |
| 27 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 baby | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Wolf | the Mother's voice | then; again | toward nightfall | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | sit down | past | voice | the window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near window=Location | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | voice not said here | voice's baby | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location baby=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | voice not said here | voice's baby not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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