The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 24
It was now the Ass's turn to confess.
Who acts: Tiger · What happens: be, confess · To what, where: turn
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 (Tiger), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turn | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 turn | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ass | det |
| 5 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 turn | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Ass | case |
| 7 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 confess | mark |
| 9 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 turn | acl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Tiger | the Ass's turn | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | confess | to-infinitive | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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