The Aesop for Children, The Flies and the Honey, sentence 8
And so they died, giving their lives for the sake of a taste of sweetness.
Who acts: wings · What happens: die, give, taste · To what, where: lives, sweetness
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 died | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 died | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 died | nsubj |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 giving | punct |
| 6 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 died | advcl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lives | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 giving | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 sake | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sake | det |
| 11 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 giving | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 taste | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 taste | det |
| 14 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sake | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sweetness | case |
| 16 | sweetness | sweetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taste | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | wings = wing | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | give | gerund | wings = wing not said here | wings's lives | for the sake of a taste of sweetness | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Theme for sake=Asset | |||
| 3 | taste | sweetness | nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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