The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 30
It was enough to hang anyone for, much more an Ass.
Who acts: crime, Ass · What happens: be, hang · To what, where: anyone
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 (crime, Ass), 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 | 3 enough | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 enough | cop |
| 3 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hang | mark |
| 5 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 enough | advcl |
| 6 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 hang | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 hang | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 more | punct |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 enough | conj |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Ass | det |
| 12 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 more | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | crime | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hang | to-infinitive | crime not said here | anyone | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | ||||
| 3 | be | a Ass | tree rules |
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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