Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 104
A FOX entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.
Who acts: FOX · What happens: enter, rummage, come, imitate · To what, where: house, properties, Mask, human head
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 (FOX), 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 | 2 FOX | det |
| 2 | FOX | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 actor | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 actor | det |
| 8 | actor | actor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rummaging | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rummaging | punct |
| 11 | rummaging | rummage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 entered | conj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 properties | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 properties | det:predet |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 properties | nmod:poss |
| 15 | properties | property | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rummaging | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 Mask | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Mask | det |
| 20 | Mask | mask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 imitation | punct |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 imitation | det |
| 23 | admirable | admirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 imitation | amod |
| 24 | imitation | imitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Mask | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 head | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 head | det |
| 27 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 head | amod |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 imitation | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | a FOX | the house of a actor | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | ||||
| 2 | rummage | gerund | a FOX not said here | Bull's properties | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through property=Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | a FOX not said here | a Mask | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon mask=Location | ||||
| 4 | imitate | a human head | nom imitation «cognition transitive»: of=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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