The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Grasshoppers, sentence 8
So thereafter the Ass would eat nothing and drink nothing but dew.
Who acts: Ass · What happens: eat, drink · To what, where: nothing
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 eat | advmod |
| 2 | thereafter | thereafter | ADV | _ | 6 eat | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ass | det |
| 4 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 eat | aux |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 eat | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drink | cc |
| 9 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 eat | conj |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 drink | obj |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 dew | cc |
| 12 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | would | the Ass | nothing | thereafter property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 2 | drink | present | the Ass not said here | nothing | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
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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