The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 29

What a horrible crime it was to eat grass that belonged to someone else!

Who acts: horrible crime, grass · What happens: be, belong

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 (horrible crime, grass), 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 crime	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crime	det
3	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crime	amod
4	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	nsubj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eat	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 belonged	nsubj
11	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grass	acl:relcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 someone	case
13	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 belonged	obl
14	else	else	ADV	_	13 someone	advmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	what horrible crime					eat property	tree rules
2	belong	past	grass					to someone	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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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