The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Camel, sentence 5
But the big hulking Camel made himself very ridiculous as he kicked out his knotty legs and twisted his long clumsy neck.
Who acts: big hulking Camel, Camel · What happens: hulk, make, kick out, twist · To what, where: Camel, knotty legs, long clumsy neck
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 (big hulking Camel, Camel), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 made | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Camel | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Camel | amod |
| 4 | hulking | hulk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Camel | amod |
| 5 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 ridiculous | advmod |
| 9 | ridiculous | ridiculous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 made | xcomp |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 kicked | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kicked | nsubj |
| 12 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ridiculous | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 kicked | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 legs | nmod:poss |
| 15 | knotty | knotty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 legs | amod |
| 16 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 kicked | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 twisted | cc |
| 18 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 kicked | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 neck | nmod:poss |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 neck | amod |
| 21 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 neck | amod |
| 22 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 twisted | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hulk | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | make | past | the big hulking Camel | Camel | ridiculous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product | |||
| 3 | kick out | past | Camel | Camel's knotty legs | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 4 | twist | past | Camel not said here | Camel's long clumsy neck | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=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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