The Aesop for Children, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, sentence 1

The Frogs were tired of governing themselves.

Who acts: Frogs · What happens: be, govern · To what, where: Frogs

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs Who Wished For a King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frogs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Frogs	det
2	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tired	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 governing	mark
6	governing	govern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tired	advcl
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 governing	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Frogs					tired property	tree rules
2	govern	gerund	the Frogs not said here	Frogs = frog					vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme

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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