The Aesop for Children, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, sentence 1
A certain Wolf could not get enough to eat because of the watchfulness of the Shepherds.
Who acts: certain Wolf · What happens: not get, eat · To what, where: enough
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain 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 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Wolf | amod |
| 3 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 eat | mark |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 enough | advcl |
| 10 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 13 watchfulness | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 because | fixed |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 watchfulness | det |
| 13 | watchfulness | watchfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Shepherds | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Shepherds | det |
| 16 | Shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 watchfulness | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | could | a certain Wolf | enough | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | a certain Wolf not said here | because the watchfulness of the Shepherds | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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