Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 83
The Wolf, coming up, inquired the cause of his lameness.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: come up, inquire, cause · To what, where: cause, lameness
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 inquired | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 coming | punct |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Wolf | acl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 coming | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wolf | punct |
| 7 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cause | det |
| 9 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 inquired | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lameness | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lameness | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lameness | lameness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cause | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | gerund | the Wolf not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the Wolf | the cause of feeding's lameness | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cause=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | cause | feeding's lameness | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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