The Aesop for Children, The Dog and the Oyster, sentence 7
"I've learned that all round things are not eggs," he said groaning.
Who acts: Dog, round things · What happens: learn, not be, say, groan · To what, where: eggs · Speech: someone speaks here
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, round things), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 learned | nsubj |
| 3 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 learned | aux |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 eggs | mark |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 things | det |
| 7 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 eggs | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 eggs | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 eggs | advmod |
| 11 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 learned | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | groaning | groan | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 said | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn in a quote | present · perfect | Dog | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | all round things | eggs | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | groan | gerund | Dog not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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