The Aesop for Children, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, sentence 3

The argument grew very pointed, and it looked as if the affair could not be settled without a battle, when at last, with much good sense, they _agreed_ to let a judge decide the matter.

Who acts: argument, it, judge · What happens: grow, look, not settle, agree, let, decide · To what, where: affair, Bees, judge, matter

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (argument, it, judge), 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 argument	det
2	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 pointed	advmod
5	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 looked	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grew	conj
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 settled	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 settled	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 affair	det
13	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 settled	nsubj:pass
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 settled	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 settled	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 settled	aux:pass
17	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 looked	advcl
18	without	without	ADP	_	20 battle	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 battle	det
20	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 settled	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 last	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 last	advmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 last	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 battle	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sense	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 sense	case
27	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sense	amod
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sense	amod
29	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 last	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 agreed	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 agreed	nsubj
32	_	_	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 agreed	aux:pass
33	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grew	conj
34	_	_	PUNCT	_	33 agreed	punct
35	to	to	PART	_	36 let	mark
36	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 agreed	xcomp
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 judge	det
38	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 let	obj
39	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 let	xcomp
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 matter	det
41	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 decide	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the argument		pointed property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	past	it			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	not settle	could · passive		the affair	without a battle	vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location
4	agree speech: agree	present · passive		Bees = bee		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic
5	let not said to happen	to-infinitive		a judge		tree rules
6	decide	infinitive	a judge not said here	the matter		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent matter=Topic

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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