The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Shepherd, sentence 6
But when he came back and saw how many of the flock had been killed and carried off, he knew how foolish to trust a Wolf.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: come back, see, kill, carry off, know, trust · To what, where: many, flock, Wolf
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 | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | advcl |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 many | advmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 killed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flock | det |
| 12 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 killed | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 killed | aux:pass |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 many | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 carried | cc |
| 17 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 killed | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 carried | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 foolish | advmod |
| 23 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 knew | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 trust | mark |
| 25 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 foolish | xcomp |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Wolf | det |
| 27 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 trust | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | Wolf | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | many | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer many=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | kill | past · perfect · passive | the flock | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | carry off | participle | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | know | past | Wolf | foolish property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | trust | to-infinitive | Wolf not said here | a Wolf | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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