The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Camel, sentence 4
He was very sure that he could dance quite as well as the Monkey, if not better, so he pushed his way into the crowd that was gathered around the Monkey, and rising on his hind legs, began to dance.
Who acts: praise · What happens: be, dance, push, gather, rise, begin · To what, where: way, crowd, hind legs
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 sure | advmod |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 dance | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dance | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 dance | aux |
| 8 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 as | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 8 dance | advmod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 as | fixed |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 Monkey | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Monkey | det |
| 14 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dance | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 better | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 better | mark |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 better | advmod |
| 18 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 dance | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pushed | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 pushed | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pushed | nsubj |
| 22 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | parataxis |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 way | nmod:poss |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pushed | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 crowd | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 crowd | det |
| 27 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pushed | obl |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 gathered | aux:pass |
| 30 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 crowd | acl:relcl |
| 31 | around | around | ADP | _ | 33 Monkey | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Monkey | det |
| 33 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gathered | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 rising | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 rising | cc |
| 36 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 pushed | advcl |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 legs | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 legs | nmod:poss |
| 39 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 legs | amod |
| 40 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 rising | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 began | punct |
| 42 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pushed | conj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 dance | mark |
| 44 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 began | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | praise | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dance | could | praise | as the Monkey | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | push | past | praise | praise's way | the crowd | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme into crowd=Destination | |||
| 4 | gather | past · passive | the crowd | around the Monkey | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rise | gerund | praise not said here | praise's hind legs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | ||||
| 6 | begin | past | praise not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | dance | to-infinitive | praise not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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