The Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun, sentence 7
The North Wind tore angrily at the cloak, but all his efforts were in vain.
Who acts: North Wind, efforts · What happens: tear, be · To what, where: cloak
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 (North Wind, efforts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg19994:1166): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wind | det |
| 2 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wind | compound |
| 3 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tore | nsubj |
| 4 | tore | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 4 tore | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 cloak | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cloak | det |
| 8 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tore | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 vain | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 vain | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 efforts | det |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 13 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 vain | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 vain | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 vain | case |
| 16 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tore | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | past | the North Wind | the cloak | angrily property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cloak=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is | past | Traveler's efforts | vain property | tree rules |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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