Reading a story: characters, plot and setting, sentence 24
Aesop's fables are very old stories, told for over two thousand years.
Who acts: fables · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: old stories · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fables), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aesop | Aesop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fables | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Aesop | case |
| 3 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stories | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stories | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stories | amod |
| 7 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stories | punct |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stories | acl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 thousand | advmod |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 thousand | compound |
| 13 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 told | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stories | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Aesop's fables | old stories | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | participle | old stories not said here | year | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:english:022-reading-a-story-characters-plot-and-setting.lesson:24.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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