The Aesop for Children, The Lion's Share, sentence 2
One day the Wolf ran down a Stag and immediately called his comrades to divide the spoil.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: run down, call, divide · To what, where: Stag, comrades, spoil · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion's Share. 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wolf | det |
| 4 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 ran | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Stag | det |
| 8 | Stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 called | cc |
| 10 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 11 called | advmod |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ran | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 13 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 called | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 divide | mark |
| 15 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 called | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spoil | det |
| 17 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 divide | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run down | past | the Wolf | a Stag | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stag=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the Wolf not said here | Wolf's comrades | immediately property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | divide | to-infinitive | the Wolf not said here | the spoil | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoil=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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