The Aesop for Children, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, sentence 1
An Ass and a Fox had become close comrades, and were constantly in each other's company.
Who acts: Ass · What happens: become, be · To what, where: close comrades, other company
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Ass | det |
| 2 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 become | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Fox | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Fox | det |
| 5 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ass | conj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 become | aux |
| 7 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 comrades | amod |
| 9 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 become | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 constantly | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 constantly | cc |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 constantly | cop |
| 13 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 7 become | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 company | case |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 company | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 company | amod |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 other | case |
| 18 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 constantly | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past · perfect | a Ass and a Fox | close comrades | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | each other company | constantly property | tree rules |
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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