The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid, sentence 17
The Shepherd Dogs pricked up their ears.
What happens: prick up
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: 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 | 3 Dogs | det |
| 2 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Dogs | compound |
| 3 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ears | nsubj |
| 4 | pricked | prick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ears | amod |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 pricked | compound:prt |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ears | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prick up | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
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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