The Aesop for Children, The Sheep and the Pig, sentence 3

You would have thought, to hear the loud squealing, that the Pig was being cruelly hurt.

Who acts: You, Pig · What happens: think, hear, be · To what, where: loud squealing, cruelly hurt

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Sheep and the Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Pig), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	aux
4	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hear	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 squealing	det
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 squealing	amod
10	squealing	squealing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hurt	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 hurt	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Pig	det
14	Pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hurt	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hurt	cop
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 hurt	cop
17	cruelly	cruelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hurt	amod
18	hurt	hurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	would · perfect	You		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	to-infinitive	You not said here	the loud squealing	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer squealing=Stimulus
3	is a	past	the Pig	cruelly hurt	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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