Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 44
A WOLF followed a flock of sheep for a long time and did not attempt to injure one of them.
Who acts: WOLF · What happens: follow, not attempt, not injure · To what, where: flock, one
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 WOLF | det |
| 2 | WOLF | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flock | det |
| 5 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sheep | case |
| 7 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flock | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 attempt | cc |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 attempt | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 attempt | advmod |
| 15 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 followed | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 injure | mark |
| 17 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 attempt | xcomp |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 injure | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 one | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | a WOLF | a flock of sheep | time | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme | |||
| 2 | not attempt | past · do-support | a WOLF not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not injure | to-infinitive | a WOLF not said here | one of 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: «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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