The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Goat, sentence 1
A hungry Wolf spied a Goat browsing at the top of a steep cliff where he could not possibly get at her.
Who acts: hungry Wolf, Goat, Wolf · What happens: spy, browse, not get · To what, where: Goat, top
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hungry Wolf, Goat, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Wolf | det |
| 2 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Wolf | amod |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spied | nsubj |
| 4 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Goat | det |
| 6 | Goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spied | obj |
| 7 | browsing | browse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Goat | acl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 top | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 top | det |
| 10 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 browsing | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cliff | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cliff | det |
| 13 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cliff | amod |
| 14 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 top | nmod |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 get | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 get | advmod |
| 19 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 20 get | advmod |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cliff | acl:relcl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 get | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spy | past | a hungry Wolf | a Goat | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goat=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | browse | gerund | a Goat not said here | the top of a steep cliff | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not get | could | Wolf | at Goat; possibly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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