Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 47

There is not half enough straw for them to lie on.

Who acts: enough straw, oxen · What happens: be, lie on

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enough straw, oxen), 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 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 half	advmod
4	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 is	advmod
5	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 straw	amod
6	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 lie	mark
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lie	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 lie	mark
10	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 straw	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 lie	compound:prt
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	enough straw			there		half property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie on	to-infinitive	oxen = ox						vn assuming_position-50 «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: «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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