Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 118
TEE KITES of olden times, as well as the Swans, had the privilege of song.
Who acts: TEE KITES · What happens: have, kite · To what, where: privilege, olden times
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (TEE KITES), 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 | TEE | tee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 KITES | amod |
| 2 | KITES | kite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 times | case |
| 4 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 times | amod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 KITES | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Swans | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 11 Swans | cc |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 as | fixed |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 as | fixed |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Swans | det |
| 11 | Swans | Swan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 had | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Swans | punct |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 privilege | det |
| 15 | privilege | privilege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 song | case |
| 17 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 privilege | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | TEE KITES of olden times | the privilege of song | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent privilege=Patient | ||||
| 2 | kite | olden times | nom kite «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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