The Aesop for Children, Hercules and the Wagoner, sentence 4
All he did was to curse his bad luck and call loudly on Hercules to come to his aid.
Who acts: Farmer, All · What happens: do, be, call, come · To what, where: Hercules, aid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Farmer, All), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 curse | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 All | acl:relcl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 curse | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 curse | mark |
| 6 | curse | curse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 luck | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 luck | amod |
| 9 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 curse | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 call | cc |
| 11 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 curse | conj |
| 12 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 11 call | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 Hercules | case |
| 14 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 call | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 call | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 aid | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 aid | nmod:poss |
| 19 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 curse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Farmer | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | All | curse property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | infinitive | All not said here | Hercules | loudly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | All not said here | Farmer's aid | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_Location |
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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