Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 23
A BALD KNIGHT, who wore a wig, went out to hunt.
Who acts: BALD KNIGHT · What happens: wear, go out, hunt · To what, where: wig
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 (BALD KNIGHT), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 KNIGHT | det |
| 2 | BALD | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 KNIGHT | amod |
| 3 | KNIGHT | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wore | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wore | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 wore | nsubj |
| 6 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wig | det |
| 8 | wig | wig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wore | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wore | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hunt | mark |
| 13 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | a BALD KNIGHT | a wig | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wig=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | a BALD KNIGHT not said here | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hunt | to-infinitive | a BALD KNIGHT not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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