The Aesop for Children, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, sentence 2

They had so much freedom that it had spoiled them, and they did nothing but sit around croaking in a bored manner and wishing for a government that could entertain them with the pomp and display of royalty, and rule them in a way to make them know they were being ruled.

Who acts: Frogs, government · What happens: have, spoil, do, sit around, croak, wish · To what, where: much freedom, freedom, nothing, bored manner, Frogs, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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, government), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 freedom	amod
5	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 spoiled	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spoiled	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spoiled	aux
9	spoiled	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spoiled	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 did	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 did	nsubj
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 did	obj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 sit	cc
17	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 nothing	conj
18	around	around	ADP	_	19 croaking	mark
19	croaking	croak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 sit	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 manner	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 manner	det
22	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 manner	amod
23	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 croaking	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wishing	cc
25	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 croaking	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 government	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 government	det
28	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wishing	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 entertain	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 entertain	aux
31	entertain	entertain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 government	acl:relcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 entertain	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 pomp	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pomp	det
35	pomp	pomp	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 entertain	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 display	cc
37	display	display	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pomp	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 royalty	case
39	royalty	royalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 display	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 rule	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 rule	cc
42	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 rule	obj
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 way	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 way	det
46	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 rule	obl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 make	mark
48	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 rule	advcl
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 make	obj
50	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 make	xcomp
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 ruled	nsubj:pass
52	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 ruled	aux:pass
53	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	54 ruled	aux:pass
54	ruled	rule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 know	ccomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Frogs = frog	much freedom			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Patient
2	spoil	past · perfect · passive		freedom			tree rules
3	do	past	Frogs = frog	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
4	sit around	present	Frogs = frog not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	croak	gerund	Frogs = frog not said here		a bored manner		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wish	gerund	Frogs = frog not said here			for a government	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for government=Theme
7	entertain	could	a government	Frogs = frog		with the pomp and display of royalty	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
8	rule	infinitive	Frogs = frog not said here	Frogs = frog	a way		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
9	make	to-infinitive	Frogs = frog not said here	Frogs = frog			tree rules
10	know	infinitive	Frogs = frog not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	rule	past · passive		Frogs = frog			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
12	display			royalty			nom display «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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