The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 12
The wise old Owl knew quite well that it would do no good to argue with the Grasshopper, nor with anybody else for that matter.
Who acts: wise old Owl, tune · What happens: know, do, argue · To what, where: good
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 (wise old Owl, tune), 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 | 4 Owl | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Owl | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Owl | amod |
| 4 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 well | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 knew | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 knew | advcl |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 good | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 argue | mark |
| 15 | argue | argue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 good | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Grasshopper | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Grasshopper | det |
| 18 | Grasshopper | Grasshopper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 argue | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 anybody | punct |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 anybody | cc |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 anybody | case |
| 22 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 knew | obl |
| 23 | else | else | ADV | _ | 22 anybody | advmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 matter | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 matter | det |
| 26 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 anybody | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the wise old Owl | with anybody; well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | do | would | tune | no good | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree | to-infinitive | tune not said here | with the Grasshopper | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with grasshopper=Co-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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