The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 19
The foolish Grasshopper was taken in by the Owl's flattering words.
Who acts: flattering words, Owl · What happens: take in, word · To what, where: foolish 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 (flattering words, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Grasshopper | det |
| 2 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Grasshopper | amod |
| 3 | Grasshopper | Grasshopper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux:pass |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 taken | compound:prt |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 words | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Owl | det |
| 9 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 words | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Owl | case |
| 11 | flattering | flattering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 words | amod |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 taken | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in | past · passive | the Owl's flattering words | the foolish Grasshopper | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | word | the Owl | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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