The Aesop for Children, The Boys and the Frogs, sentence 5
Though it may be fun for you, it means death to us!"
Who acts: play · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: death, us
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Boys and the Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (play), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 fun | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fun | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fun | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fun | cop |
| 5 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 fun | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 means | nsubj |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fun | conj |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 us | case |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 means | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 fun | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | play | for you; fun property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | play | death | us | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot death=Theme to we=Attribute |
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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