The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 10
I admit that I have been very greedy and have devoured many sheep.
Who acts: I · What happens: admit, be, devour · To what, where: many sheep · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Animals and the Plague. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 admit | nsubj |
| 2 | admit | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 greedy | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 greedy | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 greedy | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 greedy | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 greedy | advmod |
| 8 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 admit | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 devoured | cc |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 devoured | aux |
| 11 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 greedy | conj |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sheep | amod |
| 13 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 devoured | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 admit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admit speech: other | present | I | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present · perfect | I | greedy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | devour | present · perfect | I not said here | many sheep | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=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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