The Aesop for Children, The Hare and His Ears, sentence 6
Even the Hare, who, as you know, has no horns and so had nothing to fear, passed a very restless night, dreaming awful dreams about the fearful Lion.
Who acts: you, Hare · What happens: know, have, fear, pass, dream · To what, where: horns, nothing, awful dreams
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 (you, Hare), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 Hare | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hare | det |
| 3 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 has | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 has | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 has | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 horns | det |
| 13 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 has | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 had | advmod |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 has | conj |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 had | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 fear | mark |
| 19 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 nothing | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 passed | punct |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 night | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 restless | advmod |
| 24 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 night | amod |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dreaming | punct |
| 27 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 passed | advcl |
| 28 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 dreams | amod |
| 29 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 dreaming | obj |
| 30 | about | about | ADP | _ | 33 Lion | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Lion | det |
| 32 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Lion | amod |
| 33 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dreams | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | have | present | the Hare | no horns | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the Hare not said here | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fear | to-infinitive | the Hare not said here | nothing not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | pass | past | the Hare not said here | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | dream | gerund | the Hare not said here | awful dreams | about the fearful Lion | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Topic |
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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