The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 7
He walked about restlessly, tearing up the ground with his toes, and beating his arms savagely against his sides.
Who acts: kind · What happens: walk, tear up, beat · To what, where: ground, arms
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 (kind), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 restlessly | advmod |
| 4 | restlessly | restlessly | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tearing | punct |
| 6 | tearing | tear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 walked | advcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 tearing | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tearing | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 toes | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 toes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tearing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beating | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 beating | cc |
| 15 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 walked | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arms | nmod:poss |
| 17 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 beating | obj |
| 18 | savagely | savagely | ADV | _ | 15 beating | advmod |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 sides | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sides | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 beating | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | kind | restlessly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tear up | gerund | kind not said here | the ground | with kind's toes | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ground=Patient with toe=Instrument | |||
| 3 | beat | gerund | kind not said here | kind's arms | against kind's sides; savagely property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent arm=Instrument against side=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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