The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Hedgehog, sentence 7
If you drive them away, another greedy swarm will come and take the little blood I have left."
Who acts: you, greedy swarm, I · What happens: drive away, come, take, leave · To what, where: flies, little blood
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 (you, greedy swarm, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 drive | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 drive | nsubj |
| 3 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | advcl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drive | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 drive | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 drive | punct |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 swarm | det |
| 8 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 swarm | amod |
| 9 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 take | cc |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 blood | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 blood | amod |
| 16 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 left | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 left | aux |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 blood | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive away a condition, not said to happen | present | you | flies = fly | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | future | another greedy swarm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | another greedy swarm not said here | the little blood | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | present · perfect | I | the little blood not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=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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