The Aesop for Children, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, sentence 2
But one night he found a sheep skin that had been cast aside and forgotten.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: find, cast, forget · To what, where: sheep skin
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 (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 | _ | 5 found | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 night | nummod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 skin | det |
| 7 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 skin | compound |
| 8 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 cast | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cast | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 cast | aux:pass |
| 12 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 skin | acl:relcl |
| 13 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 12 cast | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 forgotten | cc |
| 15 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cast | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Wolf | a sheep skin | night | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Topic | |||
| 2 | cast | past · perfect · passive | a sheep skin | aside property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | forget | participle | 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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