The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Sheep, sentence 1
A Wolf had been hurt in a fight with a Bear.
What happens: hurt · To what, where: Wolf, fight
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 2 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 hurt | aux:pass |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 fight | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fight | det |
| 8 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurt | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Bear | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Bear | det |
| 11 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fight | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | past · perfect · passive | a Wolf | a fight with a Bear | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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