The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Goat, sentence 2

"That is a very dangerous place for you," he called out, pretending to be very anxious about the Goat's safety. "

Who acts: That, Wolf · What happens: be, call out, pretend · To what, where: dangerous place · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (That, 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	_	7 place	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 place	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 place	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 place	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 dangerous	advmod
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 place	amod
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 place	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 called	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 called	nsubj
13	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 place	parataxis
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 called	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pretending	punct
16	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 called	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	20 anxious	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 anxious	cop
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 anxious	advmod
20	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pretending	ccomp
21	about	about	ADP	_	25 safety	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Goat	det
23	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 safety	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 Goat	case
25	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 anxious	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 place	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	a dangerous place	for you	tree rules
2	call out speech: assert	participle	Wolf			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pretend	gerund	Wolf not said here			tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	Wolf not said here		about the Goat's safety; anxious property	tree rules

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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