The Aesop for Children, The Wolves and the Sheep, sentence 4
"Why is there always this hostility between us?" they said. "
Who acts: Wolves · What happens: be, say · To what, where: hostility · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolves and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolves), 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 | _ | 7 hostility | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 hostility | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hostility | cop |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 hostility | advmod |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 hostility | det |
| 7 | hostility | hostility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 us | case |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 hostility | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 hostility | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hostility | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this hostility | between us; always property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Wolves = wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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