Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 92
The Dolphin then inquired if he knew the Piræus (the famous harbor of Athens).
Who acts: Dolphin · What happens: inquire, know · To what, where: Piræus
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 (Dolphin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Dolphin | det |
| 2 | Dolphin | Dolphin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 inquired | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 inquired | advmod |
| 4 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 knew | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 inquired | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Piræus | det |
| 9 | Piræus | Piræus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | obj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 harbor | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 harbor | det |
| 12 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 harbor | amod |
| 13 | harbor | harbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Piræus | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Athens | case |
| 15 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 harbor | nmod |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 harbor | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | the Dolphin | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | Dolphin | the Piræus | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer piræus=Stimulus |
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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