The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 12
Such a wonderful Bird should have a very lovely voice, since everything else about her is so perfect.
Who acts: wonderful Bird, everything · What happens: have, be · To what, where: lovely voice
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Crow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonderful Bird, everything), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 Bird | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Bird | det |
| 3 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Bird | amod |
| 4 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 lovely | advmod |
| 9 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voice | amod |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 perfect | punct |
| 12 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 19 perfect | mark |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 perfect | nsubj |
| 14 | else | else | ADV | _ | 13 everything | advmod |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 everything | nmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 perfect | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 perfect | advmod |
| 19 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 have | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | should | such wonderful Bird | a lovely voice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | everything | perfect property | 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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