The Aesop for Children, The Sick Stag, sentence 4
Of course, they were all hungry, and helped themselves freely to the Stag's food; and as you would expect, the Stag soon starved to death.
Who acts: Animals, you, Stag · What happens: be, help, expect, starve · To what, where: Animals
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Sick Stag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Animals, you, Stag), 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 | Of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 hungry | mark |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Of | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hungry | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hungry | cop |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 hungry | advmod |
| 7 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 expect | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 helped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 helped | cc |
| 10 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hungry | conj |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 helped | obj |
| 12 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 10 helped | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 food | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Stag | det |
| 15 | Stag | Stag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 food | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Stag | case |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 helped | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 expect | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 expect | cc |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 expect | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 expect | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 expect | aux |
| 23 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 starved | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Stag | det |
| 26 | Stag | Stag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 starved | nsubj |
| 27 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 starved | advmod |
| 28 | starved | starve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 expect | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 death | case |
| 30 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 starved | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Animals = animal | all, hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | past | Animals = animal not said here | Animals = animal | to the Stag's food; freely property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | expect | would | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | starve | past | the Stag | to death; soon 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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