The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 11
Then he struck up a louder and still more rasping tune.
Who acts: Grasshopper · What happens: strike up, rasp · To what, where: louder tune
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 struck | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 struck | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tune | det |
| 6 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 tune | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rasping | cc |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 rasping | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 rasping | advmod |
| 10 | rasping | rasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 louder | conj |
| 11 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike up | past | Grasshopper | a louder tune | then | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Patient | |||
| 2 | rasp | gerund | Grasshopper not said here | still | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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