Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 102
“I see no indication whatever of your having slaughtered a sheep, while I do see very plainly every preparation for your dining on a bull.”
Who acts: Bull, your · What happens: see, slaughter, dine · To what, where: indication, your, preparation
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bull, your), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 indication | det |
| 5 | indication | indication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 indication | appos |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 slaughtered | mark |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 slaughtered | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 slaughtered | aux |
| 10 | slaughtered | slaughter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sheep | det |
| 12 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slaughtered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | conj |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 plainly | advmod |
| 19 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 17 see | advmod |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 preparation | det |
| 21 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 dining | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 dining | nmod:poss |
| 24 | dining | dining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 bull | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bull | det |
| 27 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dining | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | the Bull = bull | no indication | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer indication=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | slaughter in a quote | gerund · perfect · passive | your | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present · do-support | the Bull = bull | every preparation | for your dining on a bull; plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer preparation=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | dine in a quote | your | on a bull | nom dining «act intransitive»: poss=agent on=obl |
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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