The Aesop for Children, The Dog in the Manger, sentence 5

He cannot eat the hay and yet he will not let us eat it who are so hungry for it!"

Who acts: selfish, us · What happens: not eat, not let, eat, be · To what, where: hay, us

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog in the Manger. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (selfish, us), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hay	det
6	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 let	cc
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 let	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 let	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 let	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 let	advmod
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 eat	conj
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eat	obj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 hungry	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hungry	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 hungry	advmod
19	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eat	parataxis
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hungry	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	can	selfish	the hay			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient
2	not let	future	selfish	us	yet		tree rules
3	eat	infinitive	us not said here	hay			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	is	present				for hay; hungry 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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