The Aesop for Children, The Sheep and the Pig, sentence 8
But we should feel very much ashamed to make such a terrible fuss about it like you do."
Who acts: we, you · What happens: feel, make, do · To what, where: terrible fuss
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 (we, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 feel | cc |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 ashamed | advmod |
| 7 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ashamed | xcomp |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 fuss | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fuss | det |
| 12 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fuss | amod |
| 13 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fuss | nmod |
| 16 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | should | we | ashamed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | we not said here | such terrible fuss | about fuss | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product | |||
| 3 | do | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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