The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Lap Dog, sentence 6
Now the jealous Ass got it into his silly head that all he had to do to win his Master's favor was to act like the Dog.
Who acts: jealous Ass, Ass, silly head, favor · What happens: get, have, do, win, be, favor · To what, where: work, silly head
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Lap Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jealous Ass, Ass, silly head, favor), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ass | det |
| 3 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Ass | amod |
| 4 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 head | amod |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 had | obj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 had | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 head | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 had | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 win | mark |
| 18 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 do | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 favor | nmod:poss |
| 20 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 favor | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Master | case |
| 22 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 act | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 act | cop |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 act | mark |
| 25 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 win | ccomp |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 Dog | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Dog | det |
| 28 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 act | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the jealous Ass | work | Ass's silly head | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | have | past | Ass | Ass's silly head | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | Ass's silly head not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | win | to-infinitive | Ass's silly head not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Ass's favor | like the Dog; act property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | favor | Ass | nom favor «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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