The Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun, sentence 1
The North Wind and the Sun had a quarrel about which of them was the stronger.
Who acts: North Wind, quarrel · What happens: have, be
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (North Wind, quarrel), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wind | det |
| 2 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wind | compound |
| 3 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Sun | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sun | det |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wind | conj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 quarrel | det |
| 9 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stronger | nsubj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 quarrel | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 which | obl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stronger | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stronger | det |
| 16 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 had | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the North Wind and the Sun | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | a quarrel | strong 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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