Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 78
The Dogs listened favourably to these proposals, and, entering the den of the Wolves, they were set upon and torn to pieces.
Who acts: Dogs · What happens: listen, enter, set, tear · To what, where: den, proposals, pieces
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 (Dogs), 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 Dogs | det |
| 2 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | favourably | favourably | ADV | _ | 3 listened | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 proposals | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 proposals | det |
| 7 | proposals | proposal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 listened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 entering | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 entering | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 entering | punct |
| 11 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 listened | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 den | det |
| 13 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entering | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Wolves | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Wolves | det |
| 16 | Wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 den | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 set | aux:pass |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 listened | parataxis |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 set | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 torn | cc |
| 23 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 set | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 pieces | case |
| 25 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 torn | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the Dogs | to this proposals; favourably property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to proposal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | gerund | the Dogs not said here | the den of the Wolves | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme den=Destination | ||||
| 3 | set | past · passive | proposals = proposal | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 4 | tear | participle | pieces | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to piece=Destination |
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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