The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and His Shadow, sentence 2

As he ran, the setting sun cast his shadow far out on the ground, and it looked as if the wolf were a hundred times bigger than he really was.

Who acts: Wolf, setting sun, it · What happens: run, cast, look, be, shadow · To what, where: shadow, ground

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, setting sun, it), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 ran	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 looked	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cast	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
6	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sun	compound
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cast	nsubj
8	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shadow	nmod:poss
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cast	obj
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 out	advmod
12	out	out	ADV	_	8 cast	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cast	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 looked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 looked	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 looked	nsubj
19	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 bigger	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 bigger	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wolf	det
23	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bigger	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bigger	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hundred	det
26	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 times	nummod
27	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bigger	obl:unmarked
28	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 looked	parataxis
29	than	than	SCONJ	_	32 was	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 was	nsubj
31	really	really	ADV	_	32 was	advmod
32	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bigger	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	Wolf					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cast	past	the setting sun	Wolf's shadow	the ground		out property	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme on ground=Destination
3	look	past	it					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the wolf			time	big property	tree rules
5	be	past	Wolf					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	shadow		Wolf					nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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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