Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 121
A HORSE, proud of his fine trappings, met an Ass on the highway.
Who acts: HORSE · What happens: meet · To what, where: Ass, highway
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 (HORSE), 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 HORSE | det |
| 2 | HORSE | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 proud | punct |
| 4 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 HORSE | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 trappings | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 trappings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trappings | amod |
| 8 | trappings | trapping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 proud | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 HORSE | punct |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Ass | det |
| 12 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 highway | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 highway | det |
| 15 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | a HORSE | a Ass | the highway | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Co-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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