The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, sentence 13

Some days later the Wolf came back for the promised feast.

Who acts: Wolf · What happens: come back, promise

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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 days	det
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 later	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 came	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Wolf	det
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 feast	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 feast	det
10	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 feast	amod
11	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the Wolf					for the promised feast; late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	participle							vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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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