The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Crane, sentence 7

The Crane, as you can imagine, was very uneasy about putting her head in a Wolf's throat.

Who acts: you, Crane · What happens: imagine, be, put · To what, where: Crane, head, throat

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 (you, Crane), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crane	det
2	Crane	Crane	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 uneasy	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Crane	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 imagine	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 imagine	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 imagine	aux
7	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Crane	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Crane	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 uneasy	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 uneasy	advmod
11	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	about	about	SCONJ	_	13 putting	mark
13	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 uneasy	advcl
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 putting	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 throat	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Wolf	det
18	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 throat	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Wolf	case
20	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 putting	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 uneasy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	imagine	can	you	the Crane not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot crane=Theme
2	is	past	the Crane			uneasy property	tree rules
3	put	gerund	the Crane not said here	her head	a Wolf's throat		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in throat=Destination

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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