The Aesop for Children, The Dog and the Oyster, sentence 6
It pained the Dog a good deal, as you can guess.
Who acts: Oyster, you · What happens: pain, guess · To what, where: Dog
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 (Oyster, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pained | nsubj |
| 2 | pained | pain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Dog | det |
| 4 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pained | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 deal | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 deal | amod |
| 7 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pained | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 guess | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 guess | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 guess | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 guess | aux |
| 12 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pained | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pain | past | Oyster | the Dog | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus dog=Experiencer deal=Result | ||||
| 2 | guess | can | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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