The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 6
"On top of his head and in front of his neck hung pieces of raw red meat.
What happens: hang · To what, where: pieces, top
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: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hung | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 top | case |
| 3 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hung | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 head | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 top | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 front | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 head | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 neck | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 neck | nmod:poss |
| 12 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 front | nmod |
| 13 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hung | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 meat | case |
| 16 | raw | raw | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 meat | amod |
| 17 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 meat | amod |
| 18 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pieces | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang in a quote | past | pieces of raw red meat | top of kind's head and front of kind's neck | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme on top=Destination |
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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