The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Ass, sentence 9
Just then the Ass kicked out with all his might, tumbling the Wolf a dozen paces away.
Who acts: Ass · What happens: kick out, tumble · To what, where: Wolf
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg19994:482): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 then | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 kicked | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ass | det |
| 4 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kicked | nsubj |
| 5 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 kicked | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 might | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 might | det:predet |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 might | nmod:poss |
| 10 | might | might | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kicked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tumbling | punct |
| 12 | tumbling | tumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 kicked | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Wolf | det |
| 14 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tumbling | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dozen | det |
| 16 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 paces | nummod |
| 17 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 away | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 tumbling | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kicked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick out | past | the Ass | then | with Ass's might | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with might=Instrument | |||
| 2 | tumble | gerund | the Ass not said here | the Wolf | away property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wolf=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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