The Aesop for Children, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, sentence 3
The next day, dressed in the skin, the Wolf strolled into the pasture with the Sheep.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: dress, stroll · To what, where: next day, skin, pasture
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strolled | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dressed | punct |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 day | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 skin | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 skin | det |
| 8 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dressed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Wolf | det |
| 11 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 strolled | nsubj |
| 12 | strolled | stroll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 pasture | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pasture | det |
| 15 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strolled | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Sheep | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sheep | det |
| 18 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pasture | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 strolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | participle | the next day not said here | the skin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stroll | participle | the Wolf | the pasture with the Sheep | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pasture=Destination |
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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