The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid, sentence 15

Meanwhile, the flock was moving slowly homeward.

Who acts: flock · What happens: move · To what, where: homeward

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 (flock), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	6 moving	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Meanwhile	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flock	det
4	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moving	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 moving	aux
6	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 homeward	advmod
8	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moving	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 moving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past · progressive	the flock	homeward				meanwhile property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent homeward=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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