Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 56
Every tale is not to be believed.
What happens: not be · To what, where: tale
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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 tale | det |
| 2 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 believed | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 believed | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 believed | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 believed | aux:pass |
| 7 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present · passive | every tale | believe property | tree rules |
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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