The Aesop for Children, The Wolf, the Kid, and the Goat, sentence 9
A white paw, of course, is a feature few Wolves can show, and so Master Wolf had to go away as hungry as he had come.
Who acts: white paw, Master Wolf, Wolf · What happens: be, have, go away, come
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 (white paw, Master Wolf, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 paw | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 paw | amod |
| 3 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 course | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 course | case |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paw | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 paw | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 show | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 feature | det |
| 10 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | nsubj |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Wolves | amod |
| 12 | Wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 show | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 show | aux |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 had | advmod |
| 18 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Wolf | compound |
| 19 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 show | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 had | xcomp |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 go | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 hungry | advmod |
| 25 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 go | xcomp |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 come | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 come | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | aux |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 hungry | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can · present | a white paw and course | show property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Master Wolf | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go away | to-infinitive | Master Wolf not said here | away, hungry property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past · perfect | Wolf | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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