Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 99

Standing at a safe distance, the Wolf exclaimed, “You have unrighteously taken that which was mine from me!”

Who acts: Wolf, You · What happens: stand, exclaim, take, be · To what, where: Wolf · Speech: someone speaks here

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, 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	Standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 exclaimed	advcl
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 distance	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 distance	det
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 distance	amod
5	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Standing	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Standing	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Wolf	det
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 exclaimed	nsubj
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taken	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 taken	punct
12	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 taken	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 taken	aux
14	unrighteously	unrighteously	ADV	_	15 taken	advmod
15	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 exclaimed	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 mine	mark
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 mine	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 mine	cop
19	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 taken	obl
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 mine	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 taken	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	the Wolf not said here		at a safe distance	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location
2	exclaim speech: express	past	the Wolf			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take in a quote	present · perfect	You		unrighteously property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	past		the Wolf = wolf	from the Wolf = wolf	tree rules

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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