The Aesop for Children, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, sentence 2
No compromise was possible, and so they went at it tooth and claw.
Who acts: compromise, Birds · What happens: be, go · To what, where: tooth, compromise
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (compromise, Birds), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 compromise | det |
| 2 | compromise | compromise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 possible | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | cop |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | obl |
| 12 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 claw | cc |
| 14 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tooth | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | no compromise | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Birds = bird | tooth and claw | compromise | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at it=Location |
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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