Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 106
Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains.”
Who acts: head · What happens: be, lack · To what, where: brains
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 (head), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 6 value | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 value | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 value | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 value | case |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 value | det |
| 6 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lacks | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 lacks | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lacks | nsubj |
| 10 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 11 lacks | advmod |
| 11 | lacks | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 value | conj |
| 12 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lacks | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 value | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 value | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | head | of no value | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lack | present | head | brains | entirely property | tree rules |
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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