Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 682
THE COBBLER TURNED DOCTOR A very unskilful Cobbler, finding himself unable to make a living at his trade, gave up mending boots and took to doctoring instead.
Who acts: COBBLER, unskilful Cobbler · What happens: turn, find, make, give up, mend, take · To what, where: DOCTOR, COBBLER, living, trade, boots
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 (COBBLER, unskilful Cobbler), 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 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 COBBLER | det |
| 2 | COBBLER | cobbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 TURNED | nsubj |
| 3 | TURNED | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | DOCTOR | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 TURNED | xcomp |
| 5 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Cobbler | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 unskilful | advmod |
| 7 | unskilful | unskilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Cobbler | amod |
| 8 | Cobbler | cobbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 finding | punct |
| 10 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 gave | advcl |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 finding | obj |
| 12 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 finding | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 unable | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 living | det |
| 16 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 trade | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 trade | nmod:poss |
| 19 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 TURNED | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 gave | compound:prt |
| 23 | mending | mend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 gave | xcomp |
| 24 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 mending | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 took | cc |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gave | conj |
| 27 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 28 doctoring | mark |
| 28 | doctoring | doctor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 took | advcl |
| 29 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 28 doctoring | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the COBBLER | DOCTOR | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | gerund | a unskilful Cobbler not said here | COBBLER | unable property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | COBBLER not said here | a living | COBBLER's trade | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product | |||
| 4 | give up | past | a unskilful Cobbler | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | mend | gerund | a unskilful Cobbler not said here | boots | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | take | past | a unskilful Cobbler not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | doctor | gerund | a unskilful Cobbler not said here | instead property | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | trade | COBBLER | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=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:pg11339:682.
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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