Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 54
Having done so, they found to their surprise that the Hen differed in no respect from their other hens.
Who acts: Hen · What happens: have, do, find, differ, surprise · To what, where: respect
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 (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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 found | advcl |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 done | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 surprise | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 9 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 differed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Hen | det |
| 12 | Hen | Hen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 differed | nsubj |
| 13 | differed | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 respect | case |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 respect | det |
| 16 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 differed | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 hens | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hens | nmod:poss |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hens | amod |
| 20 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 differed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Hen not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | participle | Hen not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | past | Hen | to Hen's surprise | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | differ | past | the Hen | no respect | from Hen's other hens | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from hen=Co-Theme | |||
| 5 | surprise | Hen | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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