The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Cat, sentence 2
They were great friends and were constantly in all sorts of mischief together.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: be · To what, where: great friends, sorts
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 friends | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 friends | cop |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friends | amod |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sorts | cc |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sorts | cop |
| 7 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 10 sorts | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sorts | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 sorts | det |
| 10 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 friends | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mischief | case |
| 12 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sorts | nmod |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 friends | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Cat | great friends and all sorts | together property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | Cat not said here | all sorts | of mischief; constantly property | tree rules |
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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