Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 53
They supposed that the Hen must contain a great lump of gold in its inside, and in order to get the gold they killed it.
Who acts: COTTAGER, Hen · What happens: suppose, contain, get, kill · To what, where: great lump, inside, gold · 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 (COTTAGER, Hen), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 supposed | nsubj |
| 2 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 contain | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Hen | det |
| 5 | Hen | Hen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 contain | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 contain | aux |
| 7 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 supposed | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lump | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lump | amod |
| 10 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 contain | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lump | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 inside | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 inside | nmod:poss |
| 15 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 contain | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 get | cc |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 get | mark |
| 19 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 in | fixed |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 get | mark |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 supposed | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gold | det |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | obj |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 killed | nsubj |
| 25 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gold | acl:relcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 killed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 supposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | past | COTTAGER | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | contain | must | the Hen | a great lump of gold | gold's inside | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lump=Value in inside=Location | |||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | COTTAGER not said here | the gold | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | Hen | gold | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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