The Aesop for Children, The Crow and the Pitcher, sentence 2
But the pitcher was high and had a narrow neck, and no matter how he tried, the Crow could not reach the water.
Who acts: pitcher, matter · What happens: be, have, try, not reach · To what, where: narrow neck, Crow, water
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Crow and the Pitcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pitcher, matter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 high | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pitcher | det |
| 3 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 high | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 high | cop |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 high | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 neck | det |
| 9 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 neck | amod |
| 10 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reach | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 reach | cc |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 matter | det |
| 14 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reach | nsubj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 tried | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 tried | nsubj |
| 17 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 matter | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tried | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Crow | det |
| 20 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tried | obj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 reach | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 reach | advmod |
| 23 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 high | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reach | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the pitcher | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the pitcher not said here | a narrow neck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | ||||
| 3 | try | past | matter | the Crow | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not reach | could | no matter | the water | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
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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