The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid, sentence 12
"Please, Mr. Wolf," he said trembling, "I know you are going to eat me.
Who acts: Wolf, Kid, you · What happens: say, tremble, know, go, eat · To what, where: Kid · 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 (Wolf, Kid, you), 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 Wolf | punct |
| 2 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 5 Wolf | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Please | punct |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Wolf | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wolf | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wolf | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 said | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 trembling | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 know | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 going | xcomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 eat | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Wolf Mr. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tremble | gerund | Wolf Mr. not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | Kid | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | Kid | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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