The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Camel, sentence 1
At a great celebration in honor of King Lion, the Monkey was asked to dance for the company.
Who acts: Monkey · What happens: ask, dance, honor · To what, where: Monkey, great celebration, King Lion
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Camel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monkey), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 celebration | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 celebration | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 celebration | amod |
| 4 | celebration | celebration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 honor | case |
| 6 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 celebration | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Lion | case |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Lion | compound |
| 9 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 honor | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 celebration | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Monkey | det |
| 12 | Monkey | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | aux:pass |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 dance | mark |
| 16 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 company | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 company | det |
| 19 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dance | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | the Monkey | a great celebration in honor of King Lion | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | dance not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Monkey not said here | for the company | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | honor | King Lion | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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