The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Ass, sentence 5
"Please pull it out," he pleaded, groaning as if in pain. "
Who acts: you, Wolf · What happens: pull out, plead, groan · To what, where: thorn · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, 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 | _ | 3 pull | punct |
| 2 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 3 pull | discourse |
| 3 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pull | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 pull | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleaded | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleaded | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pleaded | nsubj |
| 9 | pleaded | plead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pull | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 groaning | punct |
| 11 | groaning | groan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 pull | advcl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 15 pain | case |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 as | fixed |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pain | case |
| 15 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 groaning | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pull | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out in a quote | imperative | you not said here | thorn | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | plead speech: request | past | Wolf | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | groan | gerund | you not said here | as pain | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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