The Aesop for Children, The Fighting Bulls and the Frog, sentence 4
"Do you not see," replied the old Frog, "that the Bull who is beaten, will be driven away from the good forage up there to the reeds of this marsh, and we shall all be trampled into the mud?"
Who acts: you, old Frog · What happens: not see, reply, beat, drive away, trample · To what, where: Bull, good forage, we, mud · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Bulls and the Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old Frog), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Frog | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Frog | amod |
| 11 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 driven | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Bull | det |
| 16 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 beaten | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 beaten | aux:pass |
| 19 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Bull | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Bull | punct |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 driven | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 driven | aux:pass |
| 23 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 see | ccomp |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 driven | advmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 forage | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 forage | det |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 forage | amod |
| 28 | forage | forage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 driven | obl |
| 29 | up | up | ADV | _ | 30 there | advmod |
| 30 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 driven | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 reeds | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 reeds | det |
| 33 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 there | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 marsh | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 marsh | det |
| 36 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 reeds | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 trampled | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 trampled | cc |
| 39 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 trampled | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 trampled | aux |
| 41 | all | all | ADV | _ | 43 trampled | advmod |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 trampled | aux:pass |
| 43 | trampled | trample | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 see | conj |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 46 mud | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 mud | det |
| 46 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 trampled | obl |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the old Frog | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | beat in a quote | present · passive | the Bull | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | drive away in a quote | future · passive | the Bull | the good forage; there | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from forage=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | trample in a quote | shall · passive | we | the mud | all 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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