The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Crane, sentence 2
He could get it neither up nor down, and of course he could not eat a thing.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: get, not eat · To what, where: throat, thing
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Crane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 get | obj |
| 5 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 6 up | advmod |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 get | advmod |
| 7 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 down | cc |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 up | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eat | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 eat | cc |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 16 eat | advmod |
| 12 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 of | fixed |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 eat | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 eat | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 eat | advmod |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 get | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eat | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | could | Wolf | throat | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not eat | could | Wolf | a thing | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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