The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid, sentence 19

The Wolf's song ended suddenly, and as he ran, with the Dogs at his heels, he called himself a fool for turning piper to please a Kid, when he should have stuck to his butcher's trade.

Who acts: song, fool, Wolf, butcher · What happens: end, run, call, turn, please, stick · To what, where: Dogs, heels, song, piper, Kid · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (song, fool, Wolf, butcher), 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	4 song	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Wolf	case
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ended	nsubj
5	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 ended	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ran	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ran	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 ran	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ran	nsubj
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ended	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Dogs	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 Dogs	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Dogs	det
15	Dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ran	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 heels	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 heels	nmod:poss
18	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Dogs	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 called	nsubj
21	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ended	parataxis
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 called	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fool	det
24	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	xcomp
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 turning	mark
26	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 fool	acl
27	piper	piper	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turning	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 please	mark
29	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 turning	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 Kid	det
31	Kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 please	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stuck	punct
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 stuck	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 stuck	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 stuck	aux
36	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 stuck	aux
37	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 called	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	42 trade	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 butcher	nmod:poss
40	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 trade	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 butcher	case
42	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stuck	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	end	past	the Wolf's song			suddenly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	run	past	song	the Dogs	song's heels		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dog=Theme at heel=Trajectory
3	call	past	song	song			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
4	turn	gerund	a fool not said here	piper			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent piper=Theme
5	please	to-infinitive	a fool not said here	a Kid			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus kid=Experiencer
6	stick	should · perfect	song			to song's butcher's trade	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to trade=Co-Patient
7	sing		the Wolf				nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
8	trade		song's butcher				nom trade «act transitive»: poss=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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