The Aesop for Children, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, sentence 1
Mother Goat was going to market one morning to get provisions for her household, which consisted of but one little Kid and herself.
Who acts: Mother Goat, household · What happens: go, get, consist · To what, where: market, provisions
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother Goat, household), 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 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Goat | compound |
| 2 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 market | mark |
| 6 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | xcomp |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 morning | nummod |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | advcl |
| 11 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 get | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 household | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 household | nmod:poss |
| 14 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 consisted | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 consisted | nsubj |
| 17 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 household | acl:relcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 consisted | obl |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 herself | cc |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 Kid | nummod |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Kid | amod |
| 22 | Kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 herself | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 herself | cc |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 get | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | Mother Goat | market | morning | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Mother Goat not said here | provisions | for Goat's household | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent provision=Theme for household=Source | |||
| 3 | consist | past | Goat's household | 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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