Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 110
When she saw that she could get no redress and that her words were despised, the Owl attacked the chatterer by a stratagem.
Who acts: Owl · What happens: see, get, despise, attack, word · To what, where: redress, words, chatterer · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Owl), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 attacked | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 get | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | aux |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 redress | det |
| 9 | redress | redress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 despised | cc |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 despised | mark |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 words | nmod:poss |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 despised | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 despised | aux:pass |
| 15 | despised | despise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 get | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Owl | det |
| 18 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 attacked | nsubj |
| 19 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chatterer | det |
| 21 | chatterer | chatterer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 attacked | obj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 stratagem | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 stratagem | det |
| 24 | stratagem | stratagem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 attacked | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 attacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Owl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | get | could | Owl | no redress | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer redress=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | despise | past · passive | Owl's words | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | attack | past | the Owl | the chatterer | by a stratagem | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chatterer=Patient | |||
| 5 | word | Owl | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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