Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 213
He'll open the door and let you in." The Fox accordingly rapped on the trunk, when out rushed the Dog and tore him in pieces.
Who acts: Notoriety, Fox, Dog · What happens: open, let in, rap, rush, tear · To what, where: door, you, trunk, Notoriety, pieces · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Notoriety, Fox, Dog), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 open | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 open | aux |
| 3 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 open | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 open | conj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 let | compound:prt |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fox | det |
| 13 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rapped | nsubj |
| 14 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 15 rapped | advmod |
| 15 | rapped | rap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 open | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 trunk | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 trunk | det |
| 18 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rapped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rushed | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 rushed | advmod |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 rushed | advmod |
| 22 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rapped | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Dog | det |
| 24 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rushed | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 tore | cc |
| 26 | tore | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 rushed | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 tore | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 pieces | case |
| 29 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 tore | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | future | Notoriety | the door | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let in | infinitive | Notoriety not said here | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rap in a quote | past | the Fox | the trunk | accordingly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on trunk=Location | |||
| 4 | rush in a quote | past | the Dog | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tear in a quote | past | the Dog not said here | Notoriety | pieces | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme |
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: «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», Project Gutenberg book 11339 (public domain in the USA). Annotation: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (mova-tales-silver-en.conllu), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence gutenberg:pg11339:213.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.3.
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