The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Ass, sentence 11
"Serves me right," growled the Wolf as he crept into the bushes. "
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: serve, growl, creep · To what, where: Wolf, bushes
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), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Serves | punct |
| 2 | Serves | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Serves | obj |
| 4 | right | right | ADV | _ | 2 Serves | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 growled | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 growled | punct |
| 7 | growled | growl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Serves | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wolf | det |
| 9 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 growled | obj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 crept | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 crept | nsubj |
| 12 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 growled | advcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 bushes | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bushes | det |
| 15 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 crept | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Serves | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Serves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve in a quote | present | Wolf | right property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | growl | past | the Wolf | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic | |||||
| 3 | creep | past | Wolf | the bushes | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bush=Destination |
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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