The Aesop for Children, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, sentence 10
The Crane proved to be a very different sort of king from old King Log.
Who acts: Crane · What happens: prove, be · To what, where: different sort
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 (Crane), 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 Crane | det |
| 2 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 proved | nsubj |
| 3 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sort | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sort | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sort | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 different | advmod |
| 8 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sort | amod |
| 9 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proved | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sort | nmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Log | case |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Log | amod |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Log | compound |
| 15 | Log | Log | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 king | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | past | the Crane | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the Crane not said here | a different sort | of king from old King Log | 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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