Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 32
The Serpent had the advantage, and was about to strangle the bird.
Who acts: Serpent · What happens: have, be, strangle · To what, where: advantage, bird
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 (Serpent), 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 Serpent | det |
| 2 | Serpent | Serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 advantage | det |
| 5 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 about | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 about | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 about | cop |
| 9 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 strangle | mark |
| 11 | strangle | strangle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 about | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 strangle | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Serpent | the advantage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Serpent not said here | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | strangle | to-infinitive | the Serpent not said here | the bird | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient |
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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