The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, sentence 14

He found the Dog in his master's yard, and asked him to come out and be eaten.

Who acts: Wolf · What happens: find, ask, come out, eat · To what, where: Dog, Wolf

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Dog	det
4	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 yard	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 master	nmod:poss
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 yard	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 master	case
9	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 asked	cc
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 come	mark
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	xcomp
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 eaten	cc
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 eaten	aux:pass
19	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 come	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	Wolf	the Dog		in Wolf's master's yard	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	past	Wolf not said here		Wolf		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Wolf not said here			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	eat	infinitive · passive	Wolf not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/56/14/