Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 4
The Cat cunningly resolved to destroy this chance-made colony.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: resolve, destroy, make · To what, where: made colony
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 (Cat), 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 Cat | det |
| 2 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 resolved | nsubj |
| 3 | cunningly | cunningly | ADV | _ | 4 resolved | advmod |
| 4 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 destroy | mark |
| 6 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 resolved | xcomp |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 colony | det |
| 8 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 chance | punct |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 colony | amod |
| 11 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 destroy | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | the Cat | cunningly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | destroy | to-infinitive | the Cat not said here | this made colony | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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