The Aesop for Children, The Frogs and the Ox, sentence 4
"A _great big_ monster," said one of them, "stepped on little brother with one of his huge feet!"
Who acts: _ great big monster · What happens: say, step · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs and the Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_ great big monster), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 monster | det |
| 3 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 monster | amod |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 monster | amod |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 monster | amod |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 big | punct |
| 7 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 monster | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 monster | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 said | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 one | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 16 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 brother | case |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 brother | amod |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stepped | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 stepped | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 feet | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 feet | nmod:poss |
| 24 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 feet | amod |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | a _ great big monster | one of sisters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 2 | step in a quote | past | a _ great big monster not said here | on little brother; with one of monster's huge feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brother=Trajectory |
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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