The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the House Dog, sentence 12
Chase people who carry canes, bark at beggars, and fawn on the people of the house.
Who acts: you, people · What happens: chase, carry, bark · To what, where: people, canes
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the House Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, people), 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 | Chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Chase | obj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 carry | nsubj |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 people | acl:relcl |
| 5 | canes | cane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bark | punct |
| 7 | bark | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 beggars | case |
| 9 | beggars | beggar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bark | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fawn | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fawn | cc |
| 12 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chase | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fawn | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 people | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | imperative | you not said here | people | fawn on the people of the house obl | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | present | people | canes | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cane=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bark | present | people not said here | at beggars | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at beggar=Stimulus |
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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