The Aesop for Children, The Dog and His Master's Dinner, sentence 4
They made several attempts to steal it from him.
Who acts: things · What happens: make, steal · To what, where: several attempts, basket
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and His Master's Dinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 attempts | amod |
| 4 | attempts | attempt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 steal | mark |
| 6 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 steal | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 steal | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | things = thing | several attempts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attempt=Product | ||||
| 2 | steal | to-infinitive | things = thing not said here | basket | from smell | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from he=Source |
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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