The Aesop for Children, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, sentence 7
There the first he laid hands on and killed was the Wolf.
Who acts: first · What happens: lay, kill, be · To what, where: hands, 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 (first), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 laid | expl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 first | det |
| 3 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 laid | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 laid | nsubj |
| 5 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 laid | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 laid | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 killed | cc |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laid | conj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Wolf | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Wolf | det |
| 12 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | the first | hands | there | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result | |||
| 2 | kill | past | the first not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the Wolf | 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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