The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Snake, sentence 5
The bite was deadly and the Farmer felt that he must die.
Who acts: bite, Farmer · What happens: be, feel, die
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bite, Farmer), 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 | 2 bite | det |
| 2 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deadly | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 deadly | cop |
| 4 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 felt | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Farmer | det |
| 7 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 felt | nsubj |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 deadly | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 die | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 die | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 die | aux |
| 12 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 felt | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deadly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the bite | deadly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | the Farmer | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | die | must | Farmer | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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