The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Lap Dog, sentence 1
There was once an Ass whose Master also owned a Lap Dog.
Who acts: Ass, Master · What happens: be, own · To what, where: Lap Dog
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Lap Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass, Master), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Ass | det |
| 5 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 owned | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 owned | nsubj |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 owned | advmod |
| 9 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Ass | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Dog | det |
| 11 | Lap | Lap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Dog | compound |
| 12 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 owned | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a Ass | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | own | past | Master | a Lap Dog | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dog=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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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