The Aesop for Children, The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox, sentence 3
This he did very fairly, giving each an equal share.
Who acts: This · What happens: do, give · To what, where: each
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 fairly | advmod |
| 5 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 giving | punct |
| 7 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 giving | obj |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 share | det |
| 10 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 share | amod |
| 11 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 giving | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | fairly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | gerund | This not said here | each | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent each=Recipient share=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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