The Aesop for Children, The Hares and the Frogs, sentence 3
Once they decided to die rather than live in such misery.
Who acts: Hares · What happens: decide, die
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hares and the Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hares), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 decided | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 decided | nsubj |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 die | mark |
| 5 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decided | xcomp |
| 6 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 8 live | cc |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 rather | fixed |
| 8 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 die | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 misery | case |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 misery | amod |
| 11 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 live | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | Hares = hare | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | die not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hares = hare not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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