The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Gnat, sentence 2

But the Gnat was not in the least disturbed.

Who acts: Gnat · What happens: not be

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Gnat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gnat), 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	_	9 disturbed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Gnat	det
3	Gnat	Gnat	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 disturbed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 disturbed	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 disturbed	advmod
6	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 disturbed	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 least	det
8	least	least	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disturbed	nsubj
9	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 disturbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the Gnat					disturb property	tree rules

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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