The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 17
The other was nothing but a bird who wouldn't harm you in the least.
Who acts: other · What happens: be, not harm · To what, where: nothing, you, least
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 other | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nothing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nothing | cop |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 bird | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | conj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 harm | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 harm | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 harm | advmod |
| 11 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 harm | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 least | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 least | det |
| 15 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 harm | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the other | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not harm | would | you | the least | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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