The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Monkey, sentence 3
The Fox did not vote for the Monkey and was much disgusted with the Animals for electing so unworthy a ruler.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: not vote, disgust, elect
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 (Fox), 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 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vote | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vote | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 vote | advmod |
| 5 | vote | vote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Monkey | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Monkey | det |
| 8 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vote | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 disgusted | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 disgusted | aux:pass |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 disgusted | advmod |
| 12 | disgusted | disgust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 vote | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Animals | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Animals | det |
| 15 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 disgusted | obl |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 electing | mark |
| 17 | electing | elect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 disgusted | advcl |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 unworthy | advmod |
| 19 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 electing | xcomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 ruler | det |
| 21 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 unworthy | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 vote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not vote | past · do-support | the Fox | for the Monkey goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for monkey=Goal | ||||
| 2 | disgust | past · passive | the Fox not said here | with the Animals | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 3 | elect | gerund | the Fox not said here | unworthy property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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