Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 36
A goat-herd seeing him stop, mocked him, saying “The little one is the best runner of the two.”
Who acts: goat herd, herd, little one · What happens: see, stop, mock, say, be · To what, where: herd, Hound, best runner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (goat herd, herd, little one), 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 | 4 herd | det |
| 2 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 herd | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 goat | punct |
| 4 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mocked | nsubj |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 herd | acl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seeing | obj |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seeing | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 herd | punct |
| 9 | mocked | mock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 mocked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 mocked | advcl |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 runner | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 runner | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 runner | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 runner | det |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 runner | amod |
| 20 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saying | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 two | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 two | det |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 runner | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 runner | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 runner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | a goat herd not said here | herd | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stop | infinitive | herd not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | mock | past | a goat herd | Hound | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | a goat herd not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | the little one | the best runner | of the two | tree rules |
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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