Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 97
A WOLF, having stolen a lamb from a fold, was carrying him off to his lair.
Who acts: WOLF · What happens: steal, carry off · To what, where: lamb, fold, lair
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), 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 | 13 carrying | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stolen | punct |
| 4 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stolen | aux |
| 5 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 WOLF | acl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lamb | det |
| 7 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stolen | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 fold | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fold | det |
| 10 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stolen | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 WOLF | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carrying | aux |
| 13 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carrying | obj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 carrying | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 lair | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lair | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lair | lair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carrying | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 carrying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | gerund · perfect | a WOLF not said here | a lamb | a fold | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme from fold=Source | |||
| 2 | carry off | past · progressive | a WOLF | lamb | lamb's lair | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to lair=Destination |
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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