The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Grasshoppers, sentence 10
_The laws of nature are unchangeable.
Who acts: laws · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Grasshoppers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laws), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 laws | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 laws | det |
| 3 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 unchangeable | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 nature | case |
| 5 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laws | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 unchangeable | cop |
| 7 | unchangeable | unchangeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 unchangeable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the laws of nature | unchangeable 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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