The Aesop for Children, The Hare and His Ears, sentence 5
All those who were so unfortunate as to have horns, began to pack up and move out.
Who acts: those · What happens: be, have, begin, pack up, move out · To what, where: horns
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and His Ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (those), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 those | det:predet |
| 2 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 unfortunate | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 unfortunate | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 unfortunate | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 unfortunate | advmod |
| 6 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 unfortunate | ccomp |
| 10 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 unfortunate | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pack | mark |
| 14 | pack | pack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 pack | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 move | cc |
| 17 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pack | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 move | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 unfortunate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | those | unfortunate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | those not said here | horns | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | those not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pack up | to-infinitive | those not said here | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | move out | infinitive | those not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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