The Aesop for Children, The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox, sentence 9
From this he took a very small portion for himself, such undesirable bits as the horns and hoofs of a mountain goat, and the end of an ox tail.
Who acts: Ass · What happens: take · To what, where: small portion, this
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 took | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 portion | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 small | advmod |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 portion | amod |
| 8 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 himself | case |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 took | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bits | punct |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bits | amod |
| 13 | undesirable | undesirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bits | amod |
| 14 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 horns | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 horns | det |
| 17 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bits | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hoofs | cc |
| 19 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 horns | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 goat | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 goat | det |
| 22 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 goat | compound |
| 23 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hoofs | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 end | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 end | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 end | det |
| 27 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 tail | case |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 tail | det |
| 30 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tail | compound |
| 31 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 end | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ass | a small portion | this | the end of a ox tail | for Ass | tree rules |
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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