The Aesop for Children, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox, sentence 4
"How much better it would have been," they said, "to have shared in a friendly spirit."
Who acts: Lion, wounds · What happens: be, say, share · To what, where: friendly spirit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion, the Bear, 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 (Lion, wounds), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 better | advmod |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 been | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 been | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 been | aux |
| 8 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 better | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shared | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 shared | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 shared | mark |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 shared | aux |
| 17 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 spirit | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 spirit | det |
| 20 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 spirit | amod |
| 21 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shared | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | would · perfect | Lion | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wounds = wound | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | share in a quote | to-infinitive · perfect | a friendly spirit | 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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