The Aesop for Children, The Dog and the Oyster, sentence 1

There was once a Dog who was very fond of eggs.

Who acts: Dog · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and the Oyster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Dog	det
5	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 fond	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fond	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 fond	advmod
9	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Dog	acl:relcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 eggs	case
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fond	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a Dog			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	a Dog					of eggs; fond 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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