The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Stork, sentence 6
Not a drop of soup could he get.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: get · To what, where: drop
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 drop | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 drop | det |
| 3 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 soup | case |
| 5 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drop | nmod |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 get | nsubj |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | could | Fox | a drop of soup | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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