The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Camel, sentence 3
The praise that was showered on the Monkey made the Camel envious.
Who acts: praise · What happens: shower, make · To what, where: praise, Camel
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 (praise), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 praise | det |
| 2 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 showered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 showered | aux:pass |
| 5 | showered | shower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 praise | acl:relcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Monkey | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Monkey | det |
| 8 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 showered | obl |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Camel | det |
| 11 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 made | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shower | past · passive | the praise | on the Monkey | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on monkey=Destination | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the praise | the Camel | envious property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset camel=Product |
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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