The Aesop for Children, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, sentence 7
It was the right password, but when the Kid peeped through a crack in the door and saw the shadowy figure outside, he did not feel at all easy.
Who acts: race, Kid, Wolf · What happens: be, peep, see, not feel · To what, where: right password, shadowy figure, all
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 (race, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 password | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 password | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 password | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 password | amod |
| 5 | password | password | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 peeped | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 peeped | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 peeped | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Kid | det |
| 10 | Kid | Kid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 peeped | nsubj |
| 11 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 password | conj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 crack | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 crack | det |
| 14 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 peeped | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 peeped | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 peeped | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 figure | det |
| 21 | shadowy | shadowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 figure | amod |
| 22 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 23 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 19 saw | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 feel | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 feel | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 feel | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 feel | advmod |
| 28 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 password | parataxis |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 all | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 feel | obl |
| 31 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 feel | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 password | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | race | the right password | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | peep | past | the Kid | in the door; through a crack | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through crack=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the Kid not said here | the shadowy figure | outside property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | not feel | past · do-support | Wolf | all | easy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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