The Aesop for Children, The Young Crab and His Mother, sentence 4
So the old Crab tried and _tried_ to walk straight forward.
Who acts: old Crab, _ · What happens: try, walk
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Young Crab and His Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Crab, _), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 tried | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Crab | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Crab | amod |
| 4 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tried | cc |
| 7 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tried | nsubj |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tried | conj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 tried | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 walk | mark |
| 11 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tried | xcomp |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 13 forward | advmod |
| 13 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 11 walk | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the old Crab | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | try | past | _ | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | walk not said to happen | to-infinitive | _ not said here | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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