Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 55
The Thief made off with the coat and did not return again to the inn.
Who acts: Thief · What happens: make off, not return
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 (Thief), 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 Thief | det |
| 2 | Thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 coat | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coat | det |
| 7 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 return | cc |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 return | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 return | advmod |
| 11 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | conj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 return | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 inn | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 inn | det |
| 15 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 return | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make off | past | the Thief | with the coat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | not return | past · do-support | the Thief not said here | again | to the inn result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to inn=Result |
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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