Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 82
A KID, returning without protection from the pasture, was pursued by a Wolf.
Who acts: KID, Wolf · What happens: return, pursue · To what, where: pasture, KID
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (KID, 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 | 2 KID | det |
| 2 | KID | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pursued | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 returning | punct |
| 4 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 KID | acl |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 protection | case |
| 6 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returning | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 pasture | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pasture | det |
| 9 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returning | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 KID | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pursued | aux:pass |
| 12 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Wolf | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Wolf | det |
| 15 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 pursued | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | gerund | a KID not said here | the pasture | without protection | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pasture=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | pursue | past · passive | a Wolf | a KID | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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