The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Cat, sentence 1
Once upon a time a Cat and a Monkey lived as pets in the same house.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: live · To what, where: same house
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 lived | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Cat | det |
| 6 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Monkey | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Monkey | det |
| 9 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Cat | conj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 pets | case |
| 12 | pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lived | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 house | amod |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a Cat and a Monkey | the same house | time | as pets; once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
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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