The Aesop for Children, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, sentence 6
Counsel for the Wasps immediately insisted that this description fitted his clients exactly.
Who acts: Counsel, description · What happens: insist, fit · To what, where: clients
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 (Counsel, description), 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 | Counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 insisted | nsubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 Wasps | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wasps | det |
| 4 | Wasps | Wasp | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Counsel | nmod |
| 5 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 6 insisted | advmod |
| 6 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 fitted | mark |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 description | det |
| 9 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fitted | nsubj |
| 10 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 insisted | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 clients | nmod:poss |
| 12 | clients | client | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fitted | obj |
| 13 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 10 fitted | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 insisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | insist speech: other | past | Counsel for the Wasps | immediately property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fit | past | this description | description's clients | exactly property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent client=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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