Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 39
The splendor of the emerald shines in your neck and you unfold a tail gorgeous with painted plumage.”
Who acts: splendor, you · What happens: shine, unfold, paint · To what, where: neck, tail
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 (splendor, you), 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 splendor | det |
| 2 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shines | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 emerald | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 emerald | det |
| 5 | emerald | emerald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 splendor | nmod |
| 6 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 neck | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 neck | nmod:poss |
| 9 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shines | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 unfold | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 unfold | nsubj |
| 12 | unfold | unfold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shines | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tail | det |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 unfold | obj |
| 15 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 unfold | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 plumage | case |
| 17 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 plumage | amod |
| 18 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 unfold | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shines | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 shines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | present | the splendor of the emerald | your neck | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in neck=Location | ||||
| 2 | unfold | present | you | a tail | with painted plumage; gorgeous property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tail=Patient with plumage=Instrument | |||
| 3 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=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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