Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 12
Then said the Wolf, “You feed in my pasture.”
Who acts: Wolf, You · What happens: say, feed · To what, where: pasture · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, You), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wolf | det |
| 4 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feed | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 feed | punct |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 feed | nsubj |
| 8 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 pasture | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pasture | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Wolf | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | feed in a quote | present | You | my pasture | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in pasture=Location |
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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