The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Old Rat, sentence 15
That may be a heap of meal, but it looks to me very much like the Cat.
Who acts: That, meal · What happens: be, look · To what, where: heap, me
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Old Rat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, meal), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heap | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 heap | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 heap | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 heap | det |
| 5 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 meal | case |
| 7 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heap | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looks | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 looks | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looks | nsubj |
| 11 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heap | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 looks | obl |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 looks | advmod |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 Cat | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Cat | det |
| 18 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looks | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | may | That | a heap | of meal | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | present | meal | me | like the Cat | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme |
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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