The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid, sentence 18
They recognized the song the Wolf sings before a feast, and in a moment they were racing back to the pasture.
Who acts: Dogs, Wolf · What happens: recognize, sing, race · To what, where: song
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 (Dogs, Wolf), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 recognized | nsubj |
| 2 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 song | det |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 recognized | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Wolf | det |
| 6 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sings | nsubj |
| 7 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 song | acl:relcl |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 feast | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 feast | det |
| 10 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sings | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 racing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 racing | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 racing | obl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 racing | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 racing | aux |
| 18 | racing | race | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 recognized | advcl |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 racing | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 pasture | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pasture | det |
| 22 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 back | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 recognized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize | past | Dogs = dog | the song | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | the Wolf | the song not said here | before a feast | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 3 | race | past · progressive | Dogs = dog | moment | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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