The Aesop for Children, The Stag and His Reflection, sentence 3
"How can it be," he sighed, "that I should be cursed with such legs when I have so magnificent a crown."
Who acts: Stag, I · What happens: be, curse, have · To what, where: I, magnificent crown · Speech: someone speaks here
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, I), 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 | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 be | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 be | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sighed | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sighed | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sighed | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sighed | nsubj |
| 9 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sighed | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sighed | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 cursed | obj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 cursed | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 cursed | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 cursed | aux:pass |
| 16 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sighed | ccomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 legs | case |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 legs | amod |
| 19 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cursed | obl |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 have | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 cursed | advcl |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 magnificent | advmod |
| 24 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 crown | amod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 crown | det |
| 26 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sighed | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | Stag | sigh property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | curse in a quote | should · passive | I | with such legs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | I | a magnificent crown | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient |
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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