The Aesop for Children, The Bees and Wasps, and the Hornet, sentence 9
An Ant was first to take the stand, and was about to be cross-examined, when a wise old Bee addressed the Court.
Who acts: Ant, wise old Bee · What happens: be, cross-examin, address · To what, where: Court
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 (Ant, wise old Bee), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Ant | det |
| 2 | Ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | cop |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 take | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stand | det |
| 8 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 about | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 about | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 about | cop |
| 12 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 take | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 cross-examined | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cross-examined | aux:pass |
| 15 | cross-examined | cross-examin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 about | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 addressed | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 addressed | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Bee | det |
| 19 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Bee | amod |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Bee | amod |
| 21 | Bee | Bee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 addressed | nsubj |
| 22 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Court | det |
| 24 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 addressed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a Ant | first, take property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | about property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cross-examin | to-infinitive · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | address | past | a wise old Bee | the Court | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Destination |
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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