Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 122
A HORSE, Ox, and Dog, driven to great straits by the cold, sought shelter and protection from Man.
What happens: drive, seek · To what, where: HORSE
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: 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 HORSE | det |
| 2 | HORSE | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ox | punct |
| 4 | Ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 HORSE | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Dog | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Dog | cc |
| 7 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 HORSE | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 driven | punct |
| 9 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 HORSE | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 straits | case |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 straits | amod |
| 12 | straits | strait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 driven | obl:agent |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 shelter | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shelter | det |
| 15 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sought | compound |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cold | punct |
| 17 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 shelter | amod |
| 18 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 driven | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 protection | cc |
| 20 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shelter | conj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Man | case |
| 22 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 protection | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 HORSE | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | participle | a HORSE and Ox and Dog not said here | by the sought shelter and protection from Man | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | seek | participle | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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