The Aesop for Children, The Two Pots, sentence 6
The least shock is sure to shatter me!"
Who acts: least shock · What happens: be, shatter · To what, where: me
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 (least shock), 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 shock | det |
| 2 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 shock | amod |
| 3 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sure | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | cop |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 shatter | mark |
| 7 | shatter | shatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sure | xcomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 shatter | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the least shock | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shatter | to-infinitive | the least shock not said here | me | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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