The Aesop for Children, The Rat and the Elephant, sentence 12
Is it his great size that makes your eyes pop out?
Who acts: Elephant, great size, eyes · What happens: be, make, pop out · To what, where: great size
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rat and the Elephant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elephant, great size, eyes), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 size | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 size | nsubj |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 size | nmod:poss |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 size | amod |
| 5 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 size | acl:relcl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pop | nsubj |
| 10 | pop | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 pop | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 size | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Elephant | pride's great size | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | pride's great size | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pop out | present | your eyes | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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