The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and His Shadow, sentence 1
A Wolf left his lair one evening in fine spirits and an excellent appetite.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: leave · To what, where: lair, fine spirits
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and His Shadow. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lair | lair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 evening | nummod |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 spirits | case |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spirits | amod |
| 10 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 appetite | cc |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 appetite | det |
| 13 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 appetite | amod |
| 14 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spirits | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | a Wolf | Wolf's lair | fine spirits and a excellent appetite | evening | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lair=Theme in spirit=Location |
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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