The Aesop for Children, The Sheep and the Pig, sentence 9
"That is all very well," replied the Pig, with a squeal and a frantic kick. "
Who acts: That, Pig · What happens: be, reply · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 well | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 well | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 replied | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Pig | det |
| 11 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 squeal | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 squeal | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 squeal | det |
| 15 | squeal | squeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kick | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 kick | det |
| 18 | frantic | frantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kick | amod |
| 19 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 squeal | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | all, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Pig | with a squeal and a frantic kick | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with squeal=Eventuality |
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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