The Aesop for Children, The Dogs and the Fox, sentence 3
"If that Lion had been alive," he said, "it would have been a very different story.
Who acts: Lion, Fox · What happens: be, say · To what, where: different story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dogs and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, Fox), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 alive | mark |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Lion | det |
| 4 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 alive | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 alive | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 alive | cop |
| 7 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 alive | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 alive | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 story | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 story | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 story | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 story | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 story | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 story | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 story | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 different | advmod |
| 20 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 story | amod |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect | that Lion | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | would · perfect | Fox | a different story | 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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