The Aesop for Children, The Plane Tree, sentence 4
It bears no fruit whatever, and only serves to litter the ground with leaves."
What happens: serve · To what, where: litter
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Plane Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bears | nsubj |
| 2 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 fruit | det |
| 4 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bears | conj |
| 5 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 fruit | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 serves | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 serves | cc |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 serves | advmod |
| 9 | serves | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 bears | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 litter | mark |
| 11 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 serves | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 serves | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 leaves | case |
| 15 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 serves | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 serves | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 serves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | present | litter | with leaves; the ground obl | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent litter=Recipient with leaf=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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