The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, sentence 1
A Wolf prowling near a village one evening met a Dog.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: prowl, meet · To what, where: village, Dog
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lean Dog. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | nsubj |
| 3 | prowling | prowl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Wolf | acl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 village | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 village | det |
| 6 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prowling | obl |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 evening | nummod |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prowling | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Dog | det |
| 11 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prowl | gerund | a Wolf not said here | a village | evening | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near village=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | meet | past | a Wolf | a Dog | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Co-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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