The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 8
I dislike causing sorrow to anybody, and I am sure I can soon gnaw this string to pieces."
Who acts: I · What happens: dislike, cause, be, gnaw · To what, where: sorrow, string
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 dislike | nsubj |
| 2 | dislike | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | causing | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 dislike | xcomp |
| 4 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 causing | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 anybody | case |
| 6 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 causing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sure | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sure | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 sure | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sure | cop |
| 11 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dislike | parataxis |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 gnaw | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 gnaw | aux |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 gnaw | advmod |
| 15 | gnaw | gnaw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sure | ccomp |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 string | det |
| 17 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gnaw | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 pieces | case |
| 19 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gnaw | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dislike | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 dislike | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dislike | present | I | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | cause | gerund | I not said here | sorrow | to anybody | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sorrow=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | gnaw | can | I | this string | to pieces; soon property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient |
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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