The Aesop for Children, The Hare and the Tortoise, sentence 1
A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow.
Who acts: Hare, Tortoise day · What happens: make, be · To what, where: fun
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, Tortoise day), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Hare | det |
| 2 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 making | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 making | aux |
| 4 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 making | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 8 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 day | compound |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 Tortoise | flat |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fun | nmod |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 slow | mark |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 slow | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 slow | advmod |
| 14 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · progressive | a Hare | fun of the Tortoise day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | the Tortoise day not said here | slow property | 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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