The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 15

She wanted very much to be called Queen of Birds.

Who acts: Crow · What happens: want, call · To what, where: much · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Crow), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wanted	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 called	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 called	aux:pass
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 much	advcl
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 called	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Birds	case
10	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Queen	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Crow	much					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot much=Theme
2	call	to-infinitive · passive	Crow not said here						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

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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