The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Lion, sentence 8
It would have been quite a different scene had a Lion made it!"
Who acts: statue, Lion · What happens: be, make · To what, where: different scene, statue
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Man and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (statue, Lion), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 scene | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 scene | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 scene | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 scene | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 scene | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 scene | det |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 scene | amod |
| 8 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Lion | det |
| 11 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 scene | acl:relcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would · perfect | statue | quite different scene | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | a Lion | statue | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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