Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 412
Seeing a statue of Jupiter among the rest, he inquired the price of it.
Who acts: Notoriety · What happens: see, inquire · To what, where: statue, price
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), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 inquired | advcl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 statue | det |
| 3 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Jupiter | case |
| 5 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 statue | nmod |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 rest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rest | det |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 inquired | nsubj |
| 11 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 price | det |
| 13 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 inquired | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 price | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Notoriety not said here | a statue of Jupiter | among the rest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer statue=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | Notoriety | the price of price | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent price=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.
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:pg11339:412.
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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