The Aesop for Children, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, sentence 2
The Sheep knew him for a very swift runner, who could easily take himself out of reach, were he so inclined.
Who acts: Sheep, swift runner · What happens: know, take, be · To what, where: him, Sheep, reach
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag, the Sheep, 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 (Sheep, swift runner), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sheep | det |
| 2 | Sheep | Sheep | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 runner | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 runner | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 swift | advmod |
| 8 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 runner | amod |
| 9 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 take | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 13 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 14 take | advmod |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 runner | acl:relcl |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 reach | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 reach | case |
| 18 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 inclined | punct |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 inclined | cop |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 inclined | nsubj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 inclined | advmod |
| 23 | inclined | inclined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the Sheep | him = he | for a swift runner | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | take | could | a swift runner | Sheep | reach | easily property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme out reach=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | is | past | Sheep | inclined property | tree rules |
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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