The Aesop for Children, The Mischievous Dog, sentence 5
Do you want everybody to know what a disgraceful and ill-natured Dog you are?"
Who acts: you, everybody · What happens: want, know, nature · To what, where: everybody, disgraceful natured Dog
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mischievous 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, everybody), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 want | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 7 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 14 Dog | det |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Dog | det |
| 9 | disgraceful | disgraceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Dog | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ill | cc |
| 11 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 disgraceful | conj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ill | punct |
| 13 | natured | nature | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Dog | amod |
| 14 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 are | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Dog | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present · do-support | you | everybody | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | everybody not said here | what disgraceful natured Dog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | nature | participle | tree rules |
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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