The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Fox, sentence 3
And, as usually happens when comrades argue, the talk began to get personal.
Who acts: talk, comrades · What happens: happen, argue, begin, get
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (talk, comrades), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 And | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 happens | mark |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 happens | advmod |
| 5 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 began | advcl |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 argue | mark |
| 7 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 argue | nsubj |
| 8 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happens | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happens | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 talk | det |
| 11 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 get | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | the talk not said here | usually property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | present | comrades | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | the talk | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | the talk not said here | personal property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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