The Aesop for Children, The Dogs and the Fox, sentence 5
_It is easy and also contemptible to kick a man that is down.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, kick · To what, where: man
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 (man), 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 | _ | 4 easy | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 easy | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | cop |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 contemptible | cc |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 contemptible | advmod |
| 7 | contemptible | contemptible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 easy | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 kick | mark |
| 9 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 contemptible | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kick | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 down | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 down | cop |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 man | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | kick | to-infinitive | a man | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent man=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | a man | down 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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