The Aesop for Children, The Flies and the Honey, sentence 7
They could not pull their feet out of the sticky mass.
Who acts: wings · What happens: not pull · To what, where: feet, sticky mass
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 (wings), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pull | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pull | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 pull | advmod |
| 4 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pull | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 mass | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mass | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mass | det |
| 10 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mass | amod |
| 11 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pull | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pull | could | wings = wing | wings's feet | the sticky mass | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent foot=Theme out mass=Initial_Location |
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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