The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lamb, sentence 5

"How dare you paddle around in my stream and stir up all the mud!" he shouted fiercely. "

Who acts: you, Wolf · What happens: paddle around, stir up, shout · To what, where: stream, mud · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 paddle	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 paddle	advmod
3	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paddle	compound
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 paddle	nsubj
5	paddle	paddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	around	around	ADV	_	5 paddle	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 stream	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stream	nmod:poss
9	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paddle	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stir	cc
11	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 paddle	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 stir	compound:prt
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 mud	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mud	det
15	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stir	obj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 paddle	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 paddle	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 shouted	nsubj
19	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paddle	parataxis
20	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	19 shouted	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 paddle	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 paddle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	paddle around in a quote	present	you		my stream	around property	tree rules
2	stir up in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	all mud			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition mud=Patient
3	shout speech: express	past	Wolf			fiercely property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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