The Aesop for Children, The Porcupine and the Snakes, sentence 9
And to save their skins, the Snakes had to look for another home.
Who acts: Snakes · What happens: save, have, look · To what, where: skins
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 save | cc |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 save | mark |
| 3 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 skins | nmod:poss |
| 5 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 save | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Snakes | det |
| 8 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 save | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 look | mark |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 had | xcomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 home | det |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | to-infinitive | doors's skins | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the Snakes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | the Snakes not said here | for another home | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for home=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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