The Aesop for Children, The Wolves and the Sheep, sentence 1
A pack of Wolves lurked near the Sheep pasture.
What happens: lurk · To what, where: Wolves, Sheep pasture
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolves and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 2 pack | det |
| 2 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Wolves | case |
| 4 | Wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pack | nmod |
| 5 | lurked | lurk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Wolves | acl |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 pasture | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pasture | det |
| 8 | Sheep | sheep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pasture | amod |
| 9 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lurked | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lurk | participle | Wolves not said here | the Sheep pasture | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near pasture=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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