The Aesop for Children, The Dogs and the Hides, sentence 3
So they held a council and decided that the very best thing to do was to drink up the river.
Who acts: Dogs, best thing · What happens: hold, decide, do, be · To what, where: council · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Dogs, best thing), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 held | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 council | det |
| 5 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 decided | cc |
| 7 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 drink | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 best | advmod |
| 11 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 thing | amod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drink | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thing | acl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drink | cop |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 drink | mark |
| 17 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 decided | ccomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 drink | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 river | det |
| 20 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drink | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Dogs = dog | a council | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | Dogs = dog not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the best thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is not said to happen | past | the best thing | drink 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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