The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid, sentence 10

But not half-way, near a clump of trees, there was the Wolf!

Who acts: Wolf · What happens: be · To what, where: half way

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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 way	cc
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 way	advmod
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 way	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 half	punct
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 clump	punct
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 clump	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 clump	det
9	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 way	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 trees	case
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 clump	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Wolf	det
16	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the Wolf	half way		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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