The Aesop for Children, The Tortoise and the Ducks, sentence 2
No matter how hard he tries, he cannot leave home.
Who acts: Tortoise · What happens: try, not leave · To what, where: matter
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 (Tortoise), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 matter | det |
| 2 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tries | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 hard | advmod |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 tries | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tries | nsubj |
| 6 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tries | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 leave | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 leave | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 leave | advmod |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tries | ccomp |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 leave | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | Tortoise | no matter | hard property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | not leave | can | Tortoise | home property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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