Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 51
A WOLF, passing by, saw some Shepherds in a hut eating a haunch of mutton for their dinner.
Who acts: WOLF, hut · What happens: pass by, see, eat · To what, where: Shepherds, hut, haunch
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WOLF, hut), 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 | 2 WOLF | det |
| 2 | WOLF | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 passing | punct |
| 4 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 WOLF | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 passing | fixed |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 WOLF | punct |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 Shepherds | det |
| 9 | Shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hut | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hut | det |
| 12 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 13 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 hut | acl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 haunch | det |
| 15 | haunch | haunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eating | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mutton | case |
| 17 | mutton | mutton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 haunch | nmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 dinner | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 20 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eating | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | gerund | a WOLF not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | a WOLF | some Shepherds | a hut | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shepherd=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | eat | gerund | a hut not said here | a haunch of mutton | for Wolf's dinner | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haunch=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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