The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 10

But the Grasshopper answered saucily that he had as much right to his place in the sun as the Owl had to her place in the old oak.

Who acts: Grasshopper, Owl · What happens: answer, have · To what, where: much right

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Owl and the Grasshopper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grasshopper, Owl), 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 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Grasshopper	det
3	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	saucily	saucily	ADV	_	4 answered	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	advcl
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 right	amod
11	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 place	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 place	nmod:poss
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 right	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 sun	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 place	nmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Owl	det
20	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 place	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 place	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 place	nmod:poss
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 oak	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 oak	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 oak	amod
28	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 place	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the Grasshopper		saucily property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	Grasshopper	much right	to Grasshopper's place in the sun	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient
3	have	past	the Owl		to Owl's place in the old oak	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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