The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lion, sentence 3
The Wolf made off to a safe distance, and then said in a much injured tone:
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: make off, say · To what, where: injured tone · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 distance | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 distance | det |
| 7 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 distance | amod |
| 8 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 said | advmod |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tone | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tone | det |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 16 injured | advmod |
| 16 | injured | injured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tone | amod |
| 17 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make off | past | the Wolf | to a safe distance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a injured tone | then | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tone=Manner |
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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