Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 79
For the sake of the nuts, the passers-by broke its branches with stones and sticks.
Who acts: passers · What happens: break · To what, where: branches
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 (passers), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 sake | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sake | det |
| 3 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 broke | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 nuts | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nuts | det |
| 6 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sake | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sake | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 passers | det |
| 9 | passers | passer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 broke | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 passers | punct |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 passers | nmod |
| 12 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 branches | nmod:poss |
| 14 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 broke | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 stones | case |
| 16 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 broke | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sticks | cc |
| 18 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stones | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | the passers | sake's branches | for the sake of the nuts; with stones and sticks | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent branch=Patient with stone=Instrument |
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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