Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 116
A MAN had a Wife who made herself hated by all the members of his household.
Who acts: MAN, Wife · What happens: have, make, hate · To what, where: Wife
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MAN, Wife), 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 MAN | det |
| 2 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Wife | det |
| 5 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Wife | acl:relcl |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 made | obj |
| 9 | hated | hate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 made | xcomp |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 members | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 members | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 members | det |
| 13 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hated | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 household | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 household | nmod:poss |
| 16 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 members | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a MAN | a Wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | past | a Wife | Wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hate | participle | Wife not said here | by all members of man's household | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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