The Aesop for Children, Belling the Cat, sentence 7
All we have to do is to hang a bell about the Cat's neck.
Who acts: we, All · What happens: have, do, be
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: who acts (we, All), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 hang | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 All | acl:relcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | xcomp |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hang | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hang | mark |
| 8 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bell | det |
| 10 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hang | obj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 neck | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Cat | det |
| 13 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 neck | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Cat | case |
| 15 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hang | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | All | about the Cat's neck; hang property | tree rules |
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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