The Aesop for Children, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, sentence 7
But they soon discovered how tame and peaceable King Log was.
Who acts: Frogs · What happens: discover, be
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 discovered | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 discovered | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 discovered | advmod |
| 4 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 tame | advmod |
| 6 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 discovered | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 peaceable | cc |
| 8 | peaceable | peaceable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tame | conj |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Log | compound |
| 10 | Log | Log | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tame | conj |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 discovered | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | Frogs = frog | soon property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | be | past | Frogs = frog not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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