Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 21
It shows an evil disposition to take advantage of a friend in distress.
Who acts: monster · What happens: show, take · To what, where: evil disposition, advantage
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 (monster), 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 shows | nsubj |
| 2 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 disposition | det |
| 4 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 disposition | amod |
| 5 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shows | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 disposition | acl |
| 8 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 friend | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 friend | det |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 distress | case |
| 13 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 friend | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | monster | a evil disposition | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent disposition=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | monster not said here | advantage | of a friend in distress | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme of friend=Initial_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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