Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 456
"Was he as big as this?" said she.
Who acts: Notoriety, Dog · What happens: be, say · 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, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 big | punct |
| 2 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 big | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 big | nsubj |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 big | advmod |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 big | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 big | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 big | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Notoriety | as this; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «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:pg11339:456.
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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