Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 74
A FAMISHED FOX saw some clusters of ripe black grapes hanging from a trellised vine.
Who acts: FAMISHED FOX, ripe black grapes · What happens: famish, see, hang, trellis · To what, where: clusters, trellised vine
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 (FAMISHED FOX, ripe black grapes), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 FOX | det |
| 2 | FAMISHED | famish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 FOX | amod |
| 3 | FOX | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 clusters | det |
| 6 | clusters | cluster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 grapes | case |
| 8 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grapes | amod |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grapes | amod |
| 10 | grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 clusters | nmod |
| 11 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 grapes | acl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 vine | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 vine | det |
| 14 | trellised | trellis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 vine | amod |
| 15 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hanging | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | famish | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | see | past | a FAMISHED FOX | some clusters of ripe black grapes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cluster=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hang | gerund | ripe black grapes not said here | a trellised vine | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | trellis | participle | 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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