Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 20
A WIZARD, sitting in the marketplace, was telling the fortunes of the passers-by when a person ran up in great haste, and announced to him that the doors of his house had been broken open and that all his goods were being stolen.
Who acts: WIZARD, person · What happens: sit, tell, run up, announce, break, steal · To what, where: marketplace, fortunes, great haste, person, doors, goods · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (WIZARD, person), 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 WIZARD | det |
| 2 | WIZARD | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 telling | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sitting | punct |
| 4 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 WIZARD | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 marketplace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 marketplace | det |
| 7 | marketplace | marketplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 WIZARD | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 telling | aux |
| 10 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fortunes | det |
| 12 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 telling | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 passers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 passers | det |
| 15 | passers | passer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fortunes | nmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 passers | punct |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 21 ran | mark |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 ran | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 person | det |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ran | nsubj |
| 21 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 telling | ccomp |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 ran | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 haste | case |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 haste | amod |
| 25 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ran | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 announced | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 announced | cc |
| 28 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 telling | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 announced | obl |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 broken | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 doors | det |
| 33 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 house | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 house | nmod:poss |
| 36 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 doors | nmod |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 broken | aux |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 broken | aux:pass |
| 39 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 announced | ccomp |
| 40 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 broken | xcomp |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 stolen | cc |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 stolen | mark |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 goods | det:predet |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 goods | nmod:poss |
| 45 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 48 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 stolen | aux:pass |
| 47 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 stolen | aux:pass |
| 48 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 broken | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 telling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | a WIZARD not said here | the marketplace | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in marketplace=Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · progressive | a WIZARD | the fortunes of the passers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent fortune=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | run up | past | a person | great haste | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in haste=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | announce speech: other | past | a WIZARD not said here | person | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | break | past · perfect · passive | the doors of person's house | open property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | steal | past · passive | person's goods | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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