The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Grasshoppers, sentence 3
It was such a joyful song that his pleasure-loving heart was filled with a wish to sing as they did.
Who acts: deal, Grasshoppers · What happens: be, fill, sing, do · To what, where: joyful song, loving heart
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 (deal, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 song | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 song | cop |
| 3 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 song | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 song | det |
| 5 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 song | amod |
| 6 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 filled | obj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 loving | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleasure | punct |
| 11 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heart | amod |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 filled | aux:pass |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 song | acl:relcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 wish | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wish | det |
| 17 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sing | mark |
| 19 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 filled | advcl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 did | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 did | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sing | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 song | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | deal | such joyful song | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | Ass's loving heart | with a wish | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | do | past | Grasshoppers = grasshopper | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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