The Aesop for Children, The Rat and the Elephant, sentence 14
Why, I have eyes and ears and as many legs as he!
Who acts: I · What happens: have · To what, where: eyes
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 (I), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 have | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ears | cc |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eyes | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 legs | cc |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 many | advmod |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 legs | amod |
| 11 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eyes | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 he | case |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | eyes and ears and many legs | as pride | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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