The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, sentence 12
So he went away pulling in his belt and promising to return.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: go away, pull, promise, return · To what, where: belt
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 belt | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 belt | nmod:poss |
| 8 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulling | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 promising | cc |
| 10 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 pulling | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 return | mark |
| 12 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 promising | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | Wolf | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull | gerund | Wolf not said here | Wolf's belt | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | gerund | Wolf not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wolf not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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