The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Ass, sentence 2
He easily guessed what the Wolf had in mind, and thought of a plan to save himself.
Who acts: Ass, Wolf · What happens: guess, have, think, save · To what, where: mind, Ass
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 guessed | nsubj |
| 2 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 3 guessed | advmod |
| 3 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 guessed | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Wolf | det |
| 6 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thought | cc |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 guessed | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 plan | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 plan | det |
| 15 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 save | mark |
| 17 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | advcl |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 save | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | Ass | easily property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the Wolf | mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Ass not said here | of a plan | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | save | to-infinitive | Ass not said here | Ass | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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