Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 65
The Wolf, hearing these words, went home, gasping with cold and hunger.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: hear, go, gasp · To what, where: words
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 (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 | 8 went | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wolf | punct |
| 4 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Wolf | acl |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hearing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wolf | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gasping | punct |
| 11 | gasping | gasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 cold | case |
| 13 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gasping | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hunger | cc |
| 15 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cold | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the Wolf not said here | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the Wolf | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gasp | gerund | the Wolf not said here | with cold and hunger | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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