Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 78
A WALNUT TREE standing by the roadside bore an abundant crop of fruit.
Who acts: WALNUT TREE · What happens: stand, bear · To what, where: abundant crop
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 (WALNUT TREE), 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 TREE | det |
| 2 | WALNUT | WALNUT | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 TREE | compound |
| 3 | TREE | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bore | nsubj |
| 4 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 TREE | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 roadside | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roadside | det |
| 7 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | obl |
| 8 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 crop | det |
| 10 | abundant | abundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 crop | amod |
| 11 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bore | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fruit | case |
| 13 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crop | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | a WALNUT TREE not said here | by the roadside | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by roadside=Location | ||||
| 2 | bear | past | a WALNUT TREE | a abundant crop of fruit | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient |
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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