The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lion, sentence 1
A Wolf had stolen a Lamb and was carrying it off to his lair to eat it.
What happens: steal, carry off, eat · To what, where: Wolf, Lamb, lair
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lion. 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 | 4 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stolen | aux |
| 4 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Lamb | det |
| 6 | Lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stolen | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carrying | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carrying | aux |
| 9 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stolen | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carrying | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 carrying | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 lair | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lair | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lair | lair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carrying | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 eat | mark |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 lair | acl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 eat | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stolen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past · perfect · passive | a Wolf | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary lamb=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry off | past · progressive | Lamb | his lair | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to lair=Destination | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | Lamb | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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