The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Sheep, sentence 3
A Sheep passed by near his hiding place, and the Wolf called to him.
Who acts: Sheep · What happens: pass, call · To what, where: Sheep, Wolf · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sheep), 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 Sheep | det |
| 2 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Sheep | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 place | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | compound |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 called | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Wolf | det |
| 12 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | nsubj |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 called | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | a Sheep not said here | by Sheep's hiding place | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by place=Location | ||||
| 2 | call | past | a Sheep | Wolf | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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