The Aesop for Children, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, sentence 4
Soon a little Lamb was following him about and was quickly led away to slaughter.
Who acts: little Lamb · What happens: follow, lead, slaughter · To what, where: Wolf
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 (little Lamb), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 following | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Lamb | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Lamb | amod |
| 4 | Lamb | Lamb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 following | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 following | aux |
| 6 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 following | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 following | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 led | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 led | aux:pass |
| 11 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 12 led | advmod |
| 12 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 following | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 led | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 slaughter | mark |
| 15 | slaughter | slaughter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 away | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 following | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past · progressive | a little Lamb | Wolf | about, soon property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead | past · passive | a little Lamb not said here | away, quickly property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP» | ||||
| 3 | slaughter | to-infinitive | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: 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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