The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, sentence 6

He would be very happy to give them some medicine.

Who acts: Cat · What happens: be, give · To what, where: medicine, Birds

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat), 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	5 happy	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happy	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 happy	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 happy	advmod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happy	xcomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 medicine	det
10	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Cat					happy property	tree rules
2	give	to-infinitive	Cat not said here	some medicine	Birds = bird				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient medicine=Theme

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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