The Aesop for Children, The Fox Without a Tail, sentence 8
That one had not been able to run fast enough because of the weight of his brush.
Who acts: one · What happens: not be, run
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox Without a Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 able | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 able | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 run | mark |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 run | advmod |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 run | advmod |
| 11 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 14 weight | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 because | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 weight | det |
| 14 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 run | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 brush | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brush | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 weight | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past · perfect | that one | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | to-infinitive | that one not said here | because the weight of Fox's brush; enough, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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