The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the House Dog, sentence 8
Why, you have to fight hard for every bite you get.
Who acts: you · What happens: have, fight, get · To what, where: bite
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), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | advcl:relcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fight | mark |
| 6 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 fight | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 bite | case |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 bite | det |
| 10 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fight | obl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bite | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fight | to-infinitive | you not said here | for every bite; hard property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get | present | you | every bite not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bite=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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