The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 18

Can it be a crime to eat sheep, such stupid mutton heads?

Who acts: Fox · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: crime, sheep

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 (Fox), 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	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 crime	aux
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crime	nsubj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 crime	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 crime	det
5	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 crime	acl
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heads	punct
10	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 heads	amod
11	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 heads	amod
12	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heads	compound
13	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sheep	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 crime	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can	Fox	a crime					tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive		sheep and such stupid mutton heads					vn eat-39.1-1 «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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