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

But the Wolf did not try to do any harm.

Who acts: Wolf · What happens: not try, do · To what, where: harm

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Shepherd. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 try	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wolf	det
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 try	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 try	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 try	advmod
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 try	xcomp
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 harm	det
10	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not try	past · do-support	the Wolf						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Wolf not said here	any harm					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality

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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