The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Monkey, sentence 1
At a great meeting of the Animals, who had gathered to elect a new ruler, the Monkey was asked to dance.
Who acts: Animals, Monkey · What happens: gather, elect, ask, dance · To what, where: new ruler, Monkey, great meeting
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Monkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Animals, Monkey), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 meeting | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 meeting | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 meeting | amod |
| 4 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 asked | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Animals | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Animals | det |
| 7 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 meeting | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gathered | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 gathered | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gathered | aux |
| 11 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 Animals | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 elect | mark |
| 13 | elect | elect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 gathered | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ruler | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ruler | amod |
| 16 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 elect | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 meeting | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Monkey | det |
| 19 | Monkey | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 asked | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 asked | aux:pass |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 dance | mark |
| 23 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 asked | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past · perfect | the Animals | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | elect | to-infinitive | the Animals not said here | a new ruler | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruler=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | the Monkey | a great meeting of the Animals | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | dance not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Monkey not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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