The Aesop for Children, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, sentence 3
It is said the quarrel grew out of the persecution the race of Geese suffered at the teeth of the Fox family.
Who acts: quarrel, race, Geese · What happens: say, grow out, suffer, race · To what, where: compromise, persecution, teeth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (quarrel, race, Geese), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 quarrel | det |
| 5 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | nsubj |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 persecution | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 persecution | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 persecution | det |
| 10 | persecution | persecution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 race | det |
| 12 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 suffered | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Geese | case |
| 14 | Geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 race | nmod |
| 15 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 persecution | acl:relcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 teeth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 teeth | det |
| 18 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 suffered | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 family | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 family | det |
| 21 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 family | compound |
| 22 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 teeth | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | compromise | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow out | past | the quarrel | the persecution | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location persecution=Theme | ||||
| 3 | suffer | past | the race of Geese | the persecution not said here | the teeth of the Fox family | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer persecution=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | race | Geese | nom race «event intransitive»: of=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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