The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Hedgehog, sentence 6

They have taken all they can hold.

Who acts: flies · What happens: take, hold · To what, where: all

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flies), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taken	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 taken	aux
3	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 taken	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hold	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hold	aux
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 taken	parataxis
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · perfect	flies = fly	all					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme
2	hold	can	flies = fly						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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