Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 71
A DOG and a Cock being great friends, agreed to travel together.
Who acts: DOG · What happens: be, agree, travel · To what, where: great friends
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 (DOG), 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 DOG | det |
| 2 | DOG | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 friends | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Cock | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Cock | det |
| 5 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 DOG | conj |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 friends | cop |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 friends | amod |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 agreed | punct |
| 10 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 friends | acl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 travel | mark |
| 12 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 agreed | xcomp |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 travel | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | a DOG and a Cock | great friends | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | participle | great friends not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | travel not said to happen | to-infinitive | together property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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