Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 37
The Hound replied, “You do not see the difference between us: I was only running for a dinner, but he for his life.”
Who acts: Hound, You · What happens: reply, not see, run · To what, where: difference · 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 (Hound, You), 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 Hound | det |
| 2 | Hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 see | advmod |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 difference | det |
| 11 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 us | case |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 see | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 running | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 running | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 running | aux |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 running | advmod |
| 18 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 replied | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 dinner | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dinner | det |
| 21 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 running | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 life | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 life | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 life | nsubj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 life | nmod:poss |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 running | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 life | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 life | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Hound | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not see in a quote | present · do-support | You | the difference | between us | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | run in a quote | past · progressive | the Hound = hound | for a dinner; for Hound's life | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for dinner=Beneficiary |
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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