Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 86
The Wolf consented and lifted up the foot, and was giving his whole mind to the discovery of the thorn, when the Ass, with his heels, kicked his teeth into his mouth and galloped away.
Who acts: Wolf, feeding · What happens: consent, lift up, give, kick, gallop away, mind · To what, where: foot, whole mind, Ass, teeth, mouth, thorn
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, feeding), 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 | 3 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lifted | cc |
| 5 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consented | conj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 lifted | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 foot | det |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 giving | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 giving | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 giving | aux |
| 12 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 lifted | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mind | nmod:poss |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mind | amod |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 giving | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 discovery | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 discovery | det |
| 18 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 giving | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 thorn | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 thorn | det |
| 21 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 discovery | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ass | punct |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 Ass | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Ass | det |
| 25 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 giving | iobj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 heels | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 heels | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 heels | nmod:poss |
| 29 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 giving | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 kicked | punct |
| 31 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consented | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 33 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 kicked | obj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 mouth | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 36 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kicked | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 galloped | cc |
| 38 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 kicked | conj |
| 39 | away | away | ADV | _ | 38 galloped | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | the Wolf | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lift up | past | the Wolf not said here | the foot | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past · progressive | the Wolf not said here | feeding's whole mind | the Ass | to the discovery of the thorn; with feeding's heels | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ass=Recipient mind=Theme | ||
| 4 | kick | past | the Wolf not said here | feeding's teeth | into feeding's mouth result | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient into mouth=Result | |||
| 5 | gallop away | past | the Wolf not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | mind | feeding | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | discover | the thorn | nom discovery «act 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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