The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Cat, sentence 12
As fast as she pulled the chestnuts out of the fire, the Monkey ate them up.
Who acts: Pussy, Monkey · What happens: pull, eat up · To what, where: chestnuts, fire
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 (Pussy, Monkey), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 fast | advmod |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 pulled | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 pulled | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pulled | nsubj |
| 5 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chestnuts | det |
| 7 | chestnuts | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pulled | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 fire | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fire | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pulled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ate | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Monkey | det |
| 14 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ate | nsubj |
| 15 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pulled | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ate | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 ate | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | Pussy | the chestnuts | the fire | fast property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent chestnut=Theme out fire=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | eat up | past | the Monkey | chestnuts = chestnut | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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