The Aesop for Children, The Wolves and the Sheep, sentence 3
But now the Wolves thought of a plan to trick the Sheep.
Who acts: Wolves · What happens: think, trick · To what, where: Sheep
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: who acts (Wolves), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 thought | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 thought | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wolves | det |
| 4 | Wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 plan | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 plan | det |
| 8 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 trick | mark |
| 10 | trick | trick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 plan | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sheep | det |
| 12 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 trick | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Wolves | now | of a plan | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | trick | to-infinitive | the Wolves not said here | the Sheep | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient |
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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