fabulist

Who acts: fabulist, writer, short stories, Aesop, animals · What happens: be, make up, teach, tell, talk · To what, where: writer, fables, lesson, famous fabulist, short tale, end · Speech: someone speaks here

«fabulist» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: fabulist in the school dictionary.

Meaning 1

A fabulist is a writer who makes up fables, short stories that teach a lesson, often with animals as characters.

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fabulist	det
2	fabulist	fabulist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 writer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 writer	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 writer	det
5	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 makes	nsubj
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 writer	acl:relcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 makes	compound:prt
9	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 makes	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stories	punct
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stories	amod
12	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fables	conj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 teach	nsubj
14	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stories	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lesson	det
16	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 teach	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 animals	punct
18	often	often	ADV	_	20 animals	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 animals	case
20	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fables	conj
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 characters	case
22	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 animals	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 writer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	a fabulist	a writer	tree rules
2	make up	present	a writer	fables and short stories and animals as characters	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fable=Pivot
3	teach speech: other	present	short stories	a lesson	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lesson=Recipient

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.

Example 1

Aesop was a famous fabulist.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aesop	Aesop	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fabulist	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fabulist	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fabulist	det
4	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fabulist	amod
5	fabulist	fabulist	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fabulist	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Aesop	a famous fabulist					tree rules

Example 2

A fabulist tells a short tale with a lesson at the end.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fabulist	det
2	fabulist	fabulist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tale	det
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tale	amod
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 lesson	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lesson	det
9	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a fabulist	a short tale			at the end	with a lesson	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient

Example 3

The fabulist's animals talk and teach us something.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fabulist	det
2	fabulist	fabulist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 animals	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 fabulist	case
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talk	nsubj
5	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 teach	cc
7	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	conj
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 teach	obj
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 teach	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	the fabulist's animals						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	teach speech: other	present	the fabulist's animals not said here	something	us				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient something=Topic

Text: the school dictionary of Mova's schools (world/data/dictionary-schools/), written for Mova. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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