Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 109
The Grasshopper refused to desist, and chirped louder and louder the more the Owl entreated.
Who acts: Grasshopper, Owl · What happens: refuse, not desist, chirp, entreat
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grasshopper, Owl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Grasshopper | det |
| 2 | Grasshopper | Grasshopper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 refused | nsubj |
| 3 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 desist | mark |
| 5 | desist | desist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 refused | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 chirped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 chirped | cc |
| 8 | chirped | chirp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 refused | conj |
| 9 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 chirped | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 louder | cc |
| 11 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 louder | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 more | det |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 entreated | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Owl | det |
| 15 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 entreated | nsubj |
| 16 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 louder | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | the Grasshopper | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not desist | to-infinitive | the Grasshopper not said here | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | chirp | past | the Grasshopper not said here | loud property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | entreat | past | the Owl | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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