The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, sentence 18
So he decided not to wait and made off as fast as his legs could carry him.
Who acts: porter, legs · What happens: decide, not wait, make off, carry · To what, where: porter
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 (porter, legs), 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 decided | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 decided | nsubj |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 wait | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wait | mark |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decided | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wait | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 made | compound:prt |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 fast | advmod |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 made | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 carry | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 legs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carry | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 carry | aux |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fast | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carry | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | porter | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not wait not said to happen | to-infinitive | porter not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make off | participle | porter not said here | fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | carry | could | porter's legs | porter | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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