The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 13
Besides, her eyes were not sharp enough by day to permit her to punish the Grasshopper as he deserved.
Who acts: eyes, Grasshopper · What happens: not be, permit, punish, deserve · To what, where: Owl, Grasshopper
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 (eyes, 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 7 sharp | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sharp | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sharp | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sharp | advmod |
| 7 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 sharp | advmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sharp | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 permit | mark |
| 12 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sharp | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 permit | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 punish | mark |
| 15 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 permit | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Grasshopper | det |
| 17 | Grasshopper | Grasshopper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 punish | obj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 deserved | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 deserved | nsubj |
| 20 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 punish | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sharp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Owl's eyes | day | enough, sharp property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | permit | to-infinitive | Owl's eyes not said here | Owl | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | punish not said to happen | to-infinitive | Owl's eyes not said here | the Grasshopper | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grasshopper=Patient | ||||
| 4 | deserve | past | Grasshopper | tree rules |
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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