The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Sheep, sentence 2
He was unable to move and could not satisfy his hunger and thirst.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: be, move, not satisfy, hunger · To what, where: hunger
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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 unable | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unable | cop |
| 3 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 move | mark |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 unable | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 satisfy | cc |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 satisfy | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 satisfy | advmod |
| 9 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 unable | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 satisfy | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thirst | cc |
| 13 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hunger | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Wolf | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | to-infinitive | Wolf not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not satisfy | could | Wolf not said here | Wolf's hunger and thirst | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | hunger | Wolf | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=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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