The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and His Shadow, sentence 3
"Why," exclaimed the Wolf proudly, "see how big I am!
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: exclaim, see, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 exclaimed | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 5 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wolf | det |
| 7 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | obj |
| 8 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 5 exclaimed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 exclaimed | conj |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 big | advmod |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 see | ccomp |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 big | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 big | cop |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | the Wolf | proudly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | the Wolf not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the Wolf = wolf | big property | tree rules |
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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