The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Crane, sentence 8
But she was grasping in nature, so she did what the Wolf asked her to do.
Who acts: she, Wolf · What happens: grasp, do, ask · To what, where: nature, her
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 (she, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 grasping | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grasping | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grasping | aux |
| 4 | grasping | grasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 nature | case |
| 6 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grasping | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 did | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grasping | parataxis |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 asked | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Wolf | det |
| 13 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 did | parataxis |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grasping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grasp | past · progressive | she | nature | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | do | past | she | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Wolf | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Wolf not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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