The Aesop for Children, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, sentence 4
Strangely enough, a Wolf was lurking near and heard what the Goat had said.
Who acts: Wolf, Goat · What happens: lurk, hear, say · 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 (Wolf, Goat), 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 | Strangely | strangely | ADV | _ | 7 lurking | advmod |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 1 Strangely | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Strangely | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Wolf | det |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lurking | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lurking | aux |
| 7 | lurking | lurk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | near | near | ADV | _ | 7 lurking | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 heard | cc |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lurking | conj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 said | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Goat | det |
| 13 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | aux |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 heard | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lurking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lurk | past · progressive | a Wolf | near, strangely property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | a Wolf not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the Goat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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