The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid, sentence 14
The Wolf liked the idea of a little music before eating, so he struck up a merry tune and the Kid leaped and frisked gaily.
Who acts: Wolf, Kid · What happens: like, eat, strike up, leap, frisk · To what, where: idea, merry tune
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 liked | nsubj |
| 3 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 idea | det |
| 5 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 liked | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 music | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 music | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 music | amod |
| 9 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 idea | nmod |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 eating | mark |
| 11 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 liked | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 struck | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 struck | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 struck | nsubj |
| 15 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 liked | parataxis |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 struck | compound:prt |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tune | det |
| 18 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tune | amod |
| 19 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 struck | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 leaped | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Kid | det |
| 22 | Kid | Kid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 leaped | nsubj |
| 23 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 struck | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 frisked | cc |
| 25 | frisked | frisk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 leaped | conj |
| 26 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 frisked | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | the Wolf | the idea of a little music | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot idea=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | the Wolf not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | strike up | past | Wolf | a merry tune | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leap | past | the Kid | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | frisk | past | the Kid not said here | gaily property | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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