The Aesop for Children, The Rat and the Elephant, sentence 2
He was a very proud Rat, considering his small size and the bad reputation all Rats have.
Who acts: Rat, proud Rat, Rats · What happens: be, consider, have · To what, where: proud Rat, small 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 (Rat, proud Rat, Rats), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Rat | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Rat | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Rat | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 proud | advmod |
| 5 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Rat | amod |
| 6 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 considering | punct |
| 8 | considering | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Rat | acl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 size | nmod:poss |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 size | amod |
| 11 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 considering | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reputation | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 reputation | det |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 reputation | amod |
| 15 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 size | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 Rats | det |
| 17 | Rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Rat | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Rat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Rat | a proud Rat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | consider | gerund | a proud Rat not said here | Rat's small size and the bad reputation | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent size=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | have | present | all Rats | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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