The Aesop for Children, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat, sentence 11
No one could deny that the dispute had been definitely settled.
Who acts: one · What happens: deny, settle · To what, where: dispute
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rabbit, the Weasel, 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 (one), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deny | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 deny | aux |
| 4 | deny | deny | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 settled | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dispute | det |
| 7 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 settled | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 settled | aux:pass |
| 10 | definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 11 settled | advmod |
| 11 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 deny | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deny | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deny | could | no one | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | settle | past · perfect · passive | the dispute | definitely property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
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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