The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 3
No longer could a fat young hen tempt Master Fox to dinner, nor a tender lamb rouse greedy Sir Wolf's appetite.
Who acts: fat young hen, tender lamb · What happens: tempt, rouse · To what, where: Master Fox, appetite
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 (fat young hen, tender lamb), 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 | No | no | ADV | _ | 2 longer | advmod |
| 2 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 tempt | advmod |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 tempt | aux |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hen | det |
| 5 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hen | amod |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hen | amod |
| 7 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tempt | nsubj |
| 8 | tempt | tempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fox | compound |
| 10 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tempt | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 dinner | case |
| 12 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tempt | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rouse | punct |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 rouse | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lamb | det |
| 16 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lamb | compound |
| 17 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rouse | nsubj |
| 18 | rouse | rouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tempt | conj |
| 19 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Wolf | amod |
| 20 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Wolf | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 appetite | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Wolf | case |
| 23 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rouse | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tempt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tempt | could | a fat young hen | Master Fox | to dinner; long property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient | |||
| 2 | rouse | present | a tender lamb | greedy Wolf Sir's appetite | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appetite=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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