The Aesop for Children, The Hare and the Tortoise, sentence 10
The Hare now ran his swiftest, but he could not overtake the Tortoise in time.
Who acts: Hare · What happens: run, not overtake · To what, where: swiftest, Tortoise
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Hare | det |
| 2 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ran | advmod |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 swiftest | nmod:poss |
| 6 | swiftest | swift | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 ran | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 overtake | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 overtake | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 overtake | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 overtake | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 overtake | advmod |
| 12 | overtake | overtake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ran | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tortoise | det |
| 14 | Tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overtake | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overtake | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the Hare | Hare's swiftest | now | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme swift=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | not overtake | could | Hare | the Tortoise | time | 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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