Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 66
You can scratch with your claws and bite with your teeth an a woman in her quarrels.
Who acts: You, woman · What happens: scratch, bite, quarrel
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 (You, woman), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 scratch | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 scratch | aux |
| 3 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 claws | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 claws | nmod:poss |
| 6 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scratch | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bite | cc |
| 8 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 scratch | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 teeth | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bite | obl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 teeth | appos |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 quarrels | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 quarrels | nmod:poss |
| 17 | quarrels | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 woman | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scratch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | can | You | with your claws | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with claw=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | bite | present | You not said here | with your teeth | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with tooth=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | quarrel | woman | nom quarrel «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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