The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, sentence 3
So he began to edge toward the Dog, while the Dog backed away.
Who acts: Wolf, Dog · What happens: begin, back away · To what, where: edge
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, Dog), 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 began | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 edge | mark |
| 5 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obj |
| 6 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 8 Dog | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Dog | det |
| 8 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 edge | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 backed | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 backed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Dog | det |
| 12 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 backed | nsubj |
| 13 | backed | back | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 backed | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Wolf | edge | toward the Dog | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | back away | past | the Dog | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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