The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and His Shadow, sentence 6

Just then an immense shadow blotted him out entirely, and the next instant a Lion struck him down with a single blow.

Who acts: immense shadow, next instant · What happens: blot out, strike down · To what, where: Wolf

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 (immense shadow, next instant), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	6 blotted	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 blotted	advmod
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shadow	det
4	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shadow	amod
5	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blotted	nsubj
6	blotted	blot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blotted	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 blotted	compound:prt
9	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	6 blotted	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 struck	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 struck	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 instant	det
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 instant	amod
14	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 struck	nsubj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Lion	det
16	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 instant	appos
17	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blotted	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 struck	obj
19	down	down	ADP	_	17 struck	compound:prt
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 blow	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 blow	det
22	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 blow	amod
23	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 struck	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 blotted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blot out	past	a immense shadow		Wolf		then	entirely property	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination
2	strike down	past	the next instant	Wolf				with a single blow	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with blow=Instrument

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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