The Aesop for Children, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, sentence 4

The Beasts, too, had cause for fight.

Who acts: Beasts · What happens: have · To what, where: cause

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 (Beasts), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Beasts	det
2	Beasts	Beast	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 fight	case
9	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cause	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Beasts	cause				for fight	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient

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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