The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid, sentence 16
In the still evening air the Wolf's piping carried far.
Who acts: piping · What happens: carry · To what, where: evening air
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 (piping), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 air | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 air | det |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 air | advmod |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 air | compound |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wolf | det |
| 7 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 piping | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Wolf | case |
| 9 | piping | piping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | nsubj |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 carried | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the Wolf's piping | the evening air | far property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=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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