The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Grasshoppers, sentence 2
He listened with a great deal of admiration to the song of the Grasshoppers.
Who acts: Ass, Grasshoppers · What happens: listen, deal, sing · To what, where: admiration
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 (Ass, Grasshoppers), 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 | 2 listened | nsubj |
| 2 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 deal | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 deal | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deal | amod |
| 6 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 listened | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 admiration | case |
| 8 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deal | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 song | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 song | det |
| 11 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 admiration | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Grasshoppers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Grasshoppers | det |
| 14 | Grasshoppers | Grasshopper | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 song | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | Ass | with a great deal of admiration to the song of the Grasshoppers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | deal | admiration to the song of the Grasshoppers | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | sing | the Grasshoppers | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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