The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Grasshoppers, sentence 5
Is there any special food you eat, or is it some divine nectar that makes you sing so wonderfully?"
Who acts: special food, you, food, divine nectar · What happens: be, eat, make, sing · To what, where: special food, divine nectar, you
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 (special food, you, food, divine nectar), 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 | Is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 1 Is | expl |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 food | det |
| 4 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 food | amod |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Is | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 eat | nsubj |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 food | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nectar | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 nectar | cc |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 nectar | cop |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 nectar | nsubj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 nectar | det |
| 13 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nectar | amod |
| 14 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eat | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 makes | nsubj |
| 16 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 nectar | acl:relcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 makes | obj |
| 18 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 makes | xcomp |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 wonderfully | advmod |
| 20 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 18 sing | advmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Is | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | any special food | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | you | any special food not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | food | some divine nectar | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | present | some divine nectar | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | infinitive | you not said here | wonderfully property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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