The Aesop for Children, The Tortoise and the Ducks, sentence 15
"This must surely be the King of Tortoises!"
Who acts: This · What happens: be · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Tortoise and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | _ | 7 King | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 King | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 King | aux |
| 4 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 7 King | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 King | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Tortoises | case |
| 9 | Tortoises | Tortoises | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | nmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 King | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 King | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | must | This | the King | of Tortoises; surely 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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