The Aesop for Children, The Hares and the Frogs, sentence 7
"Look," cried a Hare, "things are not so bad after all, for here are creatures who are even afraid of us!"
Who acts: Hare, things, creatures · What happens: look, cry, not be, be · To what, where: creatures · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hare, things, creatures), 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 | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Hare | det |
| 7 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bad | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 bad | punct |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bad | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bad | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 bad | advmod |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 bad | advmod |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cried | conj |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 bad | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 creatures | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 here | case |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 creatures | advmod |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 creatures | cop |
| 21 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cried | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 afraid | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 afraid | cop |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 afraid | advmod |
| 25 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 us | case |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 afraid | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 creatures | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | a Hare | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | things | after all | bad property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | creatures | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | creatures | of us; afraid property | 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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