The Aesop for Children, The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox, sentence 6
"You divide it," he roared angrily.
Who acts: You, Ass · What happens: divide, roar · To what, where: Fox · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, Ass), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 divide | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 divide | nsubj |
| 3 | divide | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 divide | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 roared | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 roared | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 roared | nsubj |
| 8 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 divide | parataxis |
| 9 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 8 roared | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 divide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide in a quote | present | You | Fox | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roar | past | Ass | angrily property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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