The Aesop for Children, The Stag and His Reflection, sentence 2
He greatly admired the graceful arch of his antlers, but he was very much ashamed of his spindling legs.
Who acts: Stag · What happens: admire, be, spindle · To what, where: graceful arch, much ashamed
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag and His Reflection. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stag), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 admired | nsubj |
| 2 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 3 admired | advmod |
| 3 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 arch | det |
| 5 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 arch | amod |
| 6 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 admired | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 antlers | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 antlers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | antlers | antler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 arch | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ashamed | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 ashamed | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ashamed | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ashamed | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ashamed | amod |
| 16 | ashamed | ashamed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 admired | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 legs | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 legs | nmod:poss |
| 19 | spindling | spindle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 legs | amod |
| 20 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ashamed | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 admired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admire | past | Stag | the graceful arch of Stag's antlers | greatly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arch=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Stag | much ashamed | of Stag's spindling legs | tree rules | |||
| 3 | spindle | gerund | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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