The Aesop for Children, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle, sentence 1
Once there were two Cocks living in the same farmyard who could not bear the sight of each other.
Who acts: two Cocks, same farmyard · What happens: be, live, not bear · To what, where: same farmyard, sight
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two Cocks, same farmyard), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 were | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 Cocks | nummod |
| 5 | Cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | nsubj |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Cocks | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 farmyard | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 farmyard | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 farmyard | amod |
| 10 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 living | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 bear | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bear | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 bear | advmod |
| 14 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 farmyard | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sight | det |
| 16 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bear | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 each | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 sight | nmod |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 each | fixed |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two Cocks | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | two Cocks not said here | the same farmyard | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in farmyard=Location | ||||
| 3 | not bear | could | the same farmyard | the sight of each | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=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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