The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the House Dog, sentence 26
But what's the difference?" replied the Dog.
Who acts: difference · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: difference, Dog
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 (difference), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 difference | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 difference | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 difference | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 difference | det |
| 5 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 difference | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 difference | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dog | det |
| 10 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the difference | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | the difference | the Dog | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dog=Topic |
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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