The Aesop for Children, The Wild Boar and the Fox, sentence 4
But the Boar kept right on with his work.
Who acts: Boar · What happens: keep, work
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wild Boar and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boar), 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 | _ | 4 kept | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Boar | det |
| 3 | Boar | Boar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 6 on | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 kept | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 work | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 work | nmod:poss |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the Boar | with Boar's work | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | work | Boar | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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