The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Camel, sentence 6
Besides, the animals found it hard to keep their toes from under his heavy hoofs.
Who acts: animals, neck · What happens: find, keep · To what, where: neck, toes, heavy hoofs
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 (animals, neck), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 5 found | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 animals | det |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 found | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 keep | mark |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hard | xcomp |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 toes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 keep | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 hoofs | case |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 hoofs | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hoofs | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hoofs | amod |
| 16 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 keep | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the animals | neck | hard property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | neck not said here | animals's toes | Camel's heavy hoofs | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer toe=Beneficiary from hoof=Eventuality |
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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