Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 61
A FAMISHED WOLF was prowling about in the morning in search of food.
Who acts: FAMISHED WOLF · What happens: famish, prowl, search · To what, where: search, food
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FAMISHED 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 | 3 WOLF | det |
| 2 | FAMISHED | famish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 WOLF | amod |
| 3 | WOLF | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prowling | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prowling | aux |
| 5 | prowling | prowl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 morning | case |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 morning | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morning | det |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prowling | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 search | case |
| 11 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prowling | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 food | case |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 search | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prowling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | famish | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | prowl | past · progressive | a FAMISHED WOLF | search of food | morning | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | search | food | nom search «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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