The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Lion, sentence 9
_It all depends on the point of view, and who tells the story.
Who acts: It · What happens: depend, tell, point · To what, where: story, view · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (It), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 depends | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 depends | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 It | det |
| 4 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 point | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 point | det |
| 7 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 depends | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 view | case |
| 9 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 point | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tells | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tells | cc |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 tells | nsubj |
| 13 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 depends | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tells | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 depends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | It | on the point of view | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on point=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | the story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | point | view | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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: «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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