The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 2
No doubt he was hungry, but that was not an excuse for stealing.
Who acts: doubt, that · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: excuse
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt, that), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 doubt | det |
| 2 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hungry | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hungry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hungry | cop |
| 5 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 excuse | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 excuse | cc |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 excuse | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 excuse | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 excuse | advmod |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 excuse | det |
| 12 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hungry | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 stealing | case |
| 14 | stealing | stealing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 excuse | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | no doubt | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | that | a excuse | for stealing | 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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