Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 27
He therefore rolled himself in flour and lay down in a dark corner.
Who acts: Acquaintance · What happens: roll, lay down · To what, where: Acquaintance, flour, dark corner
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 (Acquaintance), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rolled | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 rolled | advmod |
| 3 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 rolled | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 flour | case |
| 6 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rolled | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lay | cc |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rolled | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 lay | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 corner | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 corner | det |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 corner | amod |
| 13 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | past | Acquaintance | Acquaintance | flour | therefore property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in flour=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | Acquaintance not said here | a dark corner | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in corner=Destination |
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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