The Aesop for Children, The Porcupine and the Snakes, sentence 4
The Snakes soon wished they had not given him permission to stay.
Who acts: Snakes · What happens: wish, not give, stay · To what, where: permission, Porcupine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Porcupine and the Snakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snakes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Snakes | det |
| 2 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 wished | advmod |
| 4 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 given | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 given | advmod |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 wished | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 given | iobj |
| 10 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 given | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 stay | mark |
| 12 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 permission | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the Snakes | soon property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not give | past · perfect | Snakes = snake | permission | Porcupine | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient permission=Theme | |||
| 3 | stay | to-infinitive | Snakes = snake not said here | permission not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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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