The Aesop for Children, The Flies and the Honey, sentence 4
No, indeed; they settled right down, feet and all, to gorge themselves.
Who acts: Flies · What happens: settle down, gorge · To what, where: feet, Flies
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Flies and the Honey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg19994:957): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 settled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 settled | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 settled | advmod |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 settled | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 settled | nsubj |
| 6 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 8 down | advmod |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 settled | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feet | punct |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 settled | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 all | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 feet | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gorge | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 gorge | mark |
| 15 | gorge | gorge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 settled | advcl |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 gorge | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle down | past | Flies = fly | feet | indeed property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | gorge | to-infinitive | Flies = fly not said here | Flies = fly | tree rules |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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