The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Kite, sentence 9
That would be a very simple matter.
Who acts: That · What happens: be · To what, where: simple matter
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Kite. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 matter | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 matter | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 matter | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 matter | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 simple | advmod |
| 6 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 matter | amod |
| 7 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | That | a simple matter | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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