The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf, sentence 18
The Wolf killed a great many of the Boy's sheep and then slipped away into the forest.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: kill, slip away · To what, where: great many, forest
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 many | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 many | amod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 killed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sheep | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Boy | det |
| 9 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Boy | case |
| 11 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 many | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 slipped | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 slipped | advmod |
| 14 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 slipped | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slipped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | the Wolf | a great many of the Boy's sheep | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slip away | past | the Wolf not said here | the forest | then | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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