The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Stork, sentence 5
I belong to the Stork family who you know are honest and birds of good character.
Who acts: I, you, Stork family · What happens: belong, know, be
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Stork family), 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 belong | nsubj |
| 2 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 family | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 5 | Stork | Stork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 family | compound |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 belong | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 honest | nsubj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 who | acl:relcl |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 honest | cop |
| 11 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 family | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 birds | cc |
| 13 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 honest | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 character | case |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 character | amod |
| 16 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 birds | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | I | to the Stork family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the Stork family | honest property | 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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