The Aesop for Children, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, sentence 8
He takes what he wants and runs off with it without paying.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: take, want, run off, pay
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 wants | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wants | nsubj |
| 5 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 takes | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 runs | cc |
| 7 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 takes | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 runs | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 runs | obl |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 paying | mark |
| 12 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 runs | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | Wolf | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 2 | want | present | Wolf | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run off | present | Wolf not said here | with security | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with it=Material | ||||
| 4 | pay | gerund | Wolf not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: 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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