The Aesop for Children, The Rose and the Butterfly, sentence 13
You carried on scandalously with Mr. Bumble Bee and you made eyes at every single Bug you could see.
Who acts: You · What happens: carry on, make, see · To what, where: eyes, single Bug
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 carried | compound:prt |
| 4 | scandalously | scandalously | ADV | _ | 2 carried | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Bumble | case |
| 6 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bumble | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Bumble | Bumble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obl |
| 8 | Bee | Bee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bumble | flat |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 carried | conj |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Bug | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 Bug | det |
| 15 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Bug | amod |
| 16 | Bug | Bug | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 Bug | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry on | past | You | with Bumble Mr.; scandalously property | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | past | you | eyes | every single Bug | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Product | |||
| 3 | see | could | you | every single Bug not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bug=Stimulus |
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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