The Aesop for Children, The Two Pots, sentence 11
The Earthen Pot could not survive that sort of companionship very long.
Who acts: Earthen Pot · What happens: not survive, sort · To what, where: sort, companionship
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Pots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Earthen Pot), 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 | 3 Pot | det |
| 2 | Earthen | Earthen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pot | compound |
| 3 | Pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 survive | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 survive | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 survive | advmod |
| 6 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 sort | det |
| 8 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 survive | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 companionship | case |
| 10 | companionship | companionship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sort | nmod |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 long | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 companionship | amod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 survive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not survive | could | the Earthen Pot | that sort of companionship | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sort=Circumstance | ||||
| 2 | sort | companionship | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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