The Aesop for Children, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, sentence 5
So, as soon as Mother Goat was out of sight, up he trotted to the door and knocked.
Who acts: Mother Goat, Wolf · What happens: be, trot, knock · To what, where: sight, door
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, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 soon | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 soon | advmod |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 sight | mark |
| 6 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Goat | compound |
| 7 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sight | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sight | cop |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soon | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trotted | punct |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 trotted | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 trotted | nsubj |
| 15 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 soon | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trotted | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 knocked | cc |
| 20 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 trotted | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 soon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mother Goat | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trot | past | Wolf | the door | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination | ||||
| 3 | knock | past | Wolf not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
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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