Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 94
They at once killed the Goat, and so healed the Ass.
Who acts: Ass · What happens: kill, heal · To what, where: Goat, Ass
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 killed | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 killed | obl |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Goat | det |
| 6 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 healed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 healed | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 healed | advmod |
| 10 | healed | heal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Ass | det |
| 12 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 healed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | Ass | the Goat | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | heal | past | Ass not said here | the Ass | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ass=Patient |
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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