The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Ass, sentence 8
So the Ass lifted up his foot and the Wolf began to search very closely and carefully for the thorn.
Who acts: Ass, Wolf · What happens: lift up, begin, search · To what, where: foot
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ass | det |
| 3 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lifted | nsubj |
| 4 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 lifted | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 foot | nmod:poss |
| 7 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lifted | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wolf | det |
| 10 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lifted | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 search | mark |
| 13 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 closely | advmod |
| 15 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 13 search | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 carefully | cc |
| 17 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 15 closely | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 thorn | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 thorn | det |
| 20 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 search | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past | the Ass | Ass's foot | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Wolf | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | search | to-infinitive | the Wolf not said here | for the thorn; closely property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for thorn=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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