The Aesop for Children, The Dogs and the Hides, sentence 2
A fine hide makes an excellent meal for a hungry Dog, but the water was deep and the Dogs could not reach the hides from the bank.
Who acts: fine hide, water, Dogs · What happens: make, be, not reach · To what, where: excellent meal, hides, bank
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dogs and the Hides. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine hide, water, Dogs), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hide | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hide | amod |
| 3 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 meal | det |
| 6 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 meal | amod |
| 7 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Dog | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Dog | det |
| 10 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Dog | amod |
| 11 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meal | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 deep | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 deep | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deep | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 deep | cop |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 makes | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 reach | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Dogs | det |
| 20 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 reach | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 reach | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 reach | advmod |
| 23 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 deep | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hides | det |
| 25 | hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 reach | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 bank | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bank | det |
| 28 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reach | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | a fine hide | a excellent meal | for a hungry Dog | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent meal=Product for dog=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is | past | the water | deep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not reach | could | the Dogs | the hides | the bank | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hide=Theme from bank=Source |
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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