The Aesop for Children, The Ants and the Grasshopper, sentence 9
_There's a time for work and a time for play.
Who acts: time · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ants and the Grasshopper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 's | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 's | expl |
| 3 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 's | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 work | case |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 time | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 work | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 play | case |
| 12 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a time for work and a time for play | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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