Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 16
Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, “Well!
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: seize, eat up, say · To what, where: Lamb · 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), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 seized | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wolf | det |
| 4 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | nsubj |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seized | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ate | cc |
| 8 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seized | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ate | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 ate | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 seized | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Well | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Well | punct |
| 15 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 12 saying | discourse |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the Wolf | Lamb | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat up | past | the Wolf not said here | Lamb | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Wolf not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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