The Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun, sentence 5
With the first gust of wind the ends of the cloak whipped about the Traveler's body.
Who acts: ends · What happens: whip
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ends), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 gust | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gust | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 gust | amod |
| 4 | gust | gust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 whipped | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wind | case |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gust | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ends | det |
| 8 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 whipped | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cloak | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cloak | det |
| 11 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ends | nmod |
| 12 | whipped | whip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 body | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Traveler | det |
| 15 | Traveler | Traveler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 body | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Traveler | case |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 whipped | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 whipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whip | past | the ends of the cloak | with the first gust of wind; about the Traveler's body | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with gust=Instrument about body=Location |
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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