Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 95
A CRAB, forsaking the seashore, chose a neighboring green meadow as its feeding ground.
Who acts: CRAB · What happens: forsake, choose, neighbor · To what, where: seashore, neighboring green meadow
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 (CRAB), 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 | 2 CRAB | det |
| 2 | CRAB | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chose | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 forsaking | punct |
| 4 | forsaking | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 CRAB | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 seashore | det |
| 6 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forsaking | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 CRAB | punct |
| 8 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 meadow | det |
| 10 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 meadow | amod |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 meadow | amod |
| 12 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chose | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ground | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ground | compound |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meadow | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forsake | gerund | a CRAB not said here | the seashore | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose | past | a CRAB | a neighboring green meadow | as meadow's feeding ground | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme | |||
| 3 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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