Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 124
The Ass held his peace, and made only a silent appeal to the justice of the gods.
Who acts: Ass, Viper · What happens: hold, make, pacify · To what, where: peace, silent appeal
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 (Ass, Viper), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ass | det |
| 2 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 peace | nmod:poss |
| 5 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | conj |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 appeal | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 appeal | det |
| 11 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 appeal | amod |
| 12 | appeal | appeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 justice | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 justice | det |
| 15 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gods | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gods | det |
| 18 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 justice | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the Ass | Viper's peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the Ass not said here | a silent appeal | to the justice of the gods | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset appeal=Product | |||
| 3 | pacify | Viper | nom peace «state 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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