The Aesop for Children, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, sentence 10
"You can never be too sure," said the Kid, when he saw the Wolf making off to the woods.
Who acts: You, Kid, Wolf · What happens: not be, say, see, make off · To what, where: Wolf · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, Kid, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sure | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sure | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 sure | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sure | cop |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 sure | advmod |
| 7 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sure | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sure | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Kid | det |
| 12 | Kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 saw | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sure | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Wolf | det |
| 18 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 saw | xcomp |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 making | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 woods | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 woods | det |
| 23 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 making | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | can | You | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Kid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Wolf | the Wolf | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make off | gerund | the Wolf not said here | to the woods | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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