The Aesop for Children, The Two Goats, sentence 5
Their pride would not permit either to stand aside for the other.
Who acts: pride, Goats · What happens: not permit, stand, pride
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Goats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pride, Goats), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 pride | nmod:poss |
| 2 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 permit | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 permit | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 permit | advmod |
| 5 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 permit | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 stand | mark |
| 8 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 permit | xcomp |
| 9 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 8 stand | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 other | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 other | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stand | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 permit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not permit | would | Goats's pride | either property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | stand not said to happen | to-infinitive | Goats's pride not said here | for the other; aside property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for other=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | pride | Goats = goat | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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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