The Aesop for Children, The Wolves and the Sheep, sentence 5
If it were not for those Dogs who are always stirring up trouble, I am sure we should get along beautifully.
Who acts: hostility, Dogs, we · What happens: not be, stir up, be, get along · To what, where: trouble
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 (hostility, Dogs, we), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 Dogs | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Dogs | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Dogs | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 Dogs | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Dogs | case |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 Dogs | det |
| 7 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sure | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 stirring | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stirring | aux |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 stirring | advmod |
| 11 | stirring | stir | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 Dogs | acl:relcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 stirring | compound:prt |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stirring | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Dogs | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 sure | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sure | cop |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | aux |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sure | ccomp |
| 21 | along | along | ADV | _ | 20 get | advmod |
| 22 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 20 get | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a condition, not said to happen | past | hostility | for that Dogs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stir up | present · progressive | that Dogs | trouble | always property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | present | that Dogs | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get along | should | we | along, beautifully property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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