The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid, sentence 8
The Kid shivered as he thought of the terrible Wolf.
Who acts: Kid · What happens: shiver, think
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 (Kid), 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 Kid | det |
| 2 | Kid | Kid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shivered | nsubj |
| 3 | shivered | shiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 thought | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shivered | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Wolf | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wolf | det |
| 9 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Wolf | amod |
| 10 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shiver | past | the Kid | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Kid | of the terrible Wolf | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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