The Aesop for Children, The Goose and the Golden Egg, sentence 4
He was not getting rich fast enough.
Who acts: Countryman · What happens: not get
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goose and the Golden Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Countryman), 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 | 4 getting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 getting | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 getting | advmod |
| 4 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 getting | xcomp |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 getting | advmod |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 getting | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | past · progressive | Countryman | enough, fast, rich property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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