The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 16
They must have heard the good news and--"
What happens: hear · To what, where: Dogs
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heard | aux |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 news | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 news | amod |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 heard | cc |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | must · perfect · passive | Dogs = dog | 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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