The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Crane, sentence 1
A Wolf had been feasting too greedily, and a bone had stuck crosswise in his throat.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: feast
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Crane. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feasting | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feasting | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 feasting | aux |
| 5 | feasting | feast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 greedily | advmod |
| 7 | greedily | greedily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feasting | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 crosswise | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 crosswise | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bone | det |
| 11 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crosswise | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 crosswise | aux |
| 13 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 crosswise | amod |
| 14 | crosswise | crosswise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feasting | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 throat | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 throat | nmod:poss |
| 17 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crosswise | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feasting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feast | past · perfect · progressive | a Wolf | greedily property | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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