The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lamb, sentence 2
That very same morning a hungry Wolf came by farther up the stream, hunting for something to eat.
Who acts: hungry Wolf · What happens: come, hunt, eat
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 (hungry 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 morning | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 same | advmod |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Wolf | det |
| 6 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Wolf | amod |
| 7 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 farther | case |
| 10 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 came | advmod |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 stream | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stream | det |
| 13 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 farther | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hunting | punct |
| 15 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 something | case |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 hunting | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 something | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a hungry Wolf | morning | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | a hungry Wolf not said here | for something | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for something=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | a hungry Wolf not said here | 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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