The Aesop for Children, The Rose and the Butterfly, sentence 12
I had no sooner left you than I saw Zephyr kissing you.
Who acts: I, Zephyr · What happens: have, leave, see, kiss · To what, where: you, Zephyr
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rose and the Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Zephyr), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 sooner | det |
| 4 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 left | advmod |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 left | iobj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 saw | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | advcl |
| 10 | Zephyr | Zephyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 11 | kissing | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 saw | xcomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 kissing | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | I not said here | you | soon property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past | I | Zephyr | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kiss | gerund | Zephyr not said here | you | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |
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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