The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lamb, sentence 18
And without more words the Wolf seized the poor Lamb and carried her off to the forest.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: seize, carry off · To what, where: poor Lamb, highness, forest
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 seized | cc |
| 2 | without | without | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seized | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Wolf | det |
| 6 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 seized | nsubj |
| 7 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lamb | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Lamb | amod |
| 10 | Lamb | Lamb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 seized | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carried | cc |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seized | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 carried | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the Wolf | the poor Lamb | without more words | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry off | past | the Wolf not said here | highness | the forest | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to forest=Destination |
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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