The Aesop for Children, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat, sentence 4
The Rabbit was quite angry--for a Rabbit--, and requested the Weasel to move out.
Who acts: Rabbit · What happens: be, request, move out · To what, where: Weasel
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 (Rabbit), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rabbit | det |
| 2 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rabbit | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Rabbit | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Rabbit | det |
| 9 | Rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 requested | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 requested | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 requested | cc |
| 13 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Rabbit | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Weasel | det |
| 15 | Weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 requested | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 move | mark |
| 17 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 requested | xcomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 move | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Rabbit | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | request | past | a Rabbit not said here | the Weasel | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent weasel=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | move out | to-infinitive | a Rabbit not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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