The Aesop for Children, Belling the Cat, sentence 4
Many plans were discussed, but none of them was thought good enough.
What happens: discuss, think · To what, where: Many plans, none
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Belling the Cat. 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 plans | amod |
| 2 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 discussed | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 discussed | aux:pass |
| 4 | discussed | discuss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 7 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 none | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | aux:pass |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 discussed | conj |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thought | xcomp |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 thought | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 discussed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discuss speech: other | past · passive | Many plans | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past · passive | none | enough, good property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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