The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Fox, sentence 21
The Dogs are friends of yours now!"
Who acts: Dogs · What happens: be · To what, where: friends
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: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dogs | det |
| 2 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 friends | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 friends | cop |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 yours | case |
| 6 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friends | nmod |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 friends | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 friends | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Dogs | friends | now | of yours | 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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