The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Ass, sentence 7
The Wolf saw the wisdom of the advice, for he wanted to enjoy his meal without any danger of choking.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: see, want, enjoy · To what, where: wisdom, meal
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wisdom | det |
| 5 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 advice | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 advice | det |
| 8 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wisdom | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wanted | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 wanted | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wanted | nsubj |
| 12 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 enjoy | mark |
| 14 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wanted | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 meal | nmod:poss |
| 16 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enjoy | obj |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 19 danger | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 danger | det |
| 19 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enjoy | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 choking | case |
| 21 | choking | choking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 danger | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Wolf | the wisdom of the advice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wisdom=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | want | past | Wolf | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | enjoy not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wolf not said here | Wolf's meal | without any danger of choking | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus |
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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