The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Crane, sentence 5
He was sure that she, with her long neck and bill, would easily be able to reach the bone and pull it out.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: be, reach, pull out · To what, where: bone, bill
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | ADP | _ | 5 she | case |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sure | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 neck | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 neck | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 neck | nmod:poss |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 neck | amod |
| 10 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bill | cc |
| 12 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 neck | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 able | punct |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 able | aux |
| 15 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 17 able | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | cop |
| 17 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sure | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 reach | mark |
| 19 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bone | det |
| 21 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reach | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pull | cc |
| 23 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pull | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 pull | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Wolf | that she; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | would | Wolf not said here | able, easily property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | Wolf not said here | the bone | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pull out | present | Wolf not said here | bill | 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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