Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 99
The Ass and the Old Shepherd
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: 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 Ass | det |
| 2 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Shepherd | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Shepherd | det |
| 5 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Shepherd | amod |
| 6 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ass | conj |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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