The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Ass, sentence 1
An Ass was feeding in a pasture near a wood when he saw a Wolf lurking in the shadows along the hedge.
Who acts: Ass, Wolf · What happens: feed, see, lurk · To what, where: pasture, Wolf, shadows
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass, 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Ass | det |
| 2 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feeding | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feeding | aux |
| 4 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 pasture | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pasture | det |
| 7 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feeding | obl |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feeding | obl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 saw | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feeding | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Wolf | det |
| 15 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | lurking | lurk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 saw | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 shadows | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shadows | det |
| 19 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lurking | obl |
| 20 | along | along | ADP | _ | 22 hedge | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hedge | det |
| 22 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lurking | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past · progressive | a Ass | a pasture | near a wood | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in pasture=Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | Ass | a Wolf | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lurk | gerund | a Wolf not said here | the shadows | along the hedge | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shadow=Location |
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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