Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 67
The truth lies between these two extremes.
Who acts: truth · What happens: lie · To what, where: two extremes
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (truth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 truth | det |
| 2 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | nsubj |
| 3 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 extremes | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 extremes | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 extremes | nummod |
| 7 | extremes | extreme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lies | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the truth | this two extremes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between extreme=Location |
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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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