Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 94
ONCE UPON A TIME a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: resolve, disguise, secure · To what, where: appearance, food
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. 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 | ONCE | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 resolved | advmod |
| 2 | UPON | upon | ADP | _ | 4 TIME | case |
| 3 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 TIME | det |
| 4 | TIME | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ONCE | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Wolf | det |
| 6 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 resolved | nsubj |
| 7 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 disguise | mark |
| 9 | disguise | disguise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 resolved | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 11 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disguise | obj |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 secure | mark |
| 13 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 in | fixed |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 secure | mark |
| 15 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 disguise | advcl |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 secure | obj |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 easily | advmod |
| 18 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 15 secure | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | a Wolf | once property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | disguise | to-infinitive | a Wolf not said here | Wolf's appearance | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme appearance=Destination | ||||
| 3 | secure | to-infinitive | a Wolf not said here | food | easily property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition food=Theme |
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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