The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Grasshoppers, sentence 9
Naturally, the poor foolish Ass soon died.
Who acts: poor foolish Ass · What happens: die
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 (poor foolish 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 | Naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 8 died | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Naturally | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Ass | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Ass | amod |
| 5 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Ass | amod |
| 6 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 died | nsubj |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 died | advmod |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the poor foolish Ass | naturally, soon property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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