The Aesop for Children, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, sentence 6
"Down with the Wolf and all his race," said the Wolf softly.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: say, race · 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), 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 | _ | 2 Down | punct |
| 2 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 Wolf | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Wolf | det |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Down | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 race | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 race | det:predet |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 race | nmod:poss |
| 9 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Down | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Down | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Down | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Wolf | det |
| 14 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Wolf | down, softly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | race in a quote | Wolf | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=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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