The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lamb, sentence 16
"Well, then," snarled the Wolf, "It was someone in your family anyway.
Who acts: water · What happens: snarl, be · To what, where: Wolf, someone, family
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 (water), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 snarled | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 snarled | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 snarled | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 snarled | punct |
| 7 | snarled | snarl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wolf | det |
| 9 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 snarled | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 someone | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 someone | punct |
| 12 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 someone | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 someone | cop |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 snarled | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 family | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 family | nmod:poss |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 someone | nmod |
| 18 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 14 someone | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 snarled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snarl | past | the Wolf | then | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | water | someone | your family | anyway property | tree rules |
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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