The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lamb, sentence 1
A stray Lamb stood drinking early one morning on the bank of a woodland stream.
Who acts: stray Lamb · What happens: stand, drink · To what, where: bank
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lamb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stray Lamb), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Lamb | det |
| 2 | stray | stray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Lamb | amod |
| 3 | Lamb | Lamb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 6 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 one | advmod |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 morning | nummod |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drinking | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 bank | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bank | det |
| 11 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drinking | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stream | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stream | det |
| 14 | woodland | woodland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stream | compound |
| 15 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bank | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a stray Lamb | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | drink | gerund | a stray Lamb not said here | the bank of a woodland stream | morning | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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