The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 4

Now there was a certain old Owl who had become very cross and hard to please as she grew older, especially if anything disturbed her daily slumbers.

Who acts: certain old Owl, Owl, anything · What happens: be, become, please, grow, disturb, slumber · To what, where: daily slumbers

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 (certain old Owl, Owl, anything), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 was	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Owl	det
5	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Owl	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Owl	amod
7	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 become	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 become	aux
10	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 Owl	acl:relcl
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 cross	advmod
12	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 become	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hard	cc
14	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cross	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 please	mark
16	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 hard	xcomp
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 grew	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 grew	nsubj
19	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 please	advcl
20	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 grew	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 disturbed	punct
22	especially	especially	ADV	_	25 disturbed	advmod
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 disturbed	mark
24	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 disturbed	nsubj
25	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grew	conj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 slumbers	nmod:poss
27	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 slumbers	amod
28	slumbers	slumber	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 disturbed	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a certain old Owl		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past · perfect	a certain old Owl				cross property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	please	to-infinitive	a certain old Owl not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	grow	past	Owl				old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	disturb a condition, not said to happen	past	anything	Owl's daily slumbers			especially property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus slumber=Experiencer
6	slumber		Owl					nom slumber «state intransitive»: 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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