The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Crane, sentence 3
Naturally that was an awful state of affairs for a greedy Wolf.
Who acts: that · What happens: be · To what, where: awful state
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 (that), 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 | Naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 6 state | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 state | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 state | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 state | det |
| 5 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 state | amod |
| 6 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 affairs | case |
| 8 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 state | nmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Wolf | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Wolf | det |
| 11 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Wolf | amod |
| 12 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 affairs | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that | a awful state | of affairs for a greedy Wolf; naturally 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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