The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Ass, sentence 10
And while the Wolf was getting very slowly and painfully to his feet, the Ass galloped away in safety.
Who acts: Wolf, Ass · What happens: get, gallop away · To what, where: safety
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 (Wolf, Ass), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 getting | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 getting | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wolf | det |
| 4 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 getting | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 getting | aux |
| 6 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 slowly | advmod |
| 8 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 6 getting | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feet | cc |
| 10 | painfully | painfully | ADV | _ | 13 feet | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 slowly | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 galloped | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Ass | det |
| 16 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 galloped | nsubj |
| 17 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 getting | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 galloped | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 safety | case |
| 20 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 galloped | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · progressive | the Wolf | slowly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | gallop away | past | the Ass | safety | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in safety=Trajectory |
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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