The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid, sentence 1

There was once a little Kid whose growing horns made him think he was a grown-up Billy Goat and able to take care of himself.

Who acts: little Kid, growing horns, Kid · What happens: be, grow, make, think, grow up, take · To what, where: Kid, grown Billy Goat, care · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Kid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Kid, growing horns, Kid), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Kid	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Kid	amod
6	Kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 horns	nmod:poss
8	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 horns	amod
9	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Kid	acl:relcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	obj
12	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 made	xcomp
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 Goat	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Goat	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Goat	det
16	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 Goat	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 up	punct
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 grown	compound:prt
19	Billy	Billy	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Goat	compound
20	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 think	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 able	cc
22	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Goat	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 take	mark
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	xcomp
25	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 himself	case
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 take	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a little Kid		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	gerund					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	make	past	growing horns	Kid			tree rules
4	think speech: other	infinitive	Kid not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	grow up	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	past	Kid	a grown Billy Goat			tree rules
7	be		Kid not said here				tree rules
8	take	to-infinitive	Kid not said here	care		of Kid	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of himself=Initial_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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