Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 112
A FOX invited a Crane to supper and provided nothing for his entertainment but some soup made of pulse, which was poured out into a broad flat stone dish.
Who acts: FOX, Mercury · What happens: invite, provide, make, pour out, entertain · To what, where: Crane, nothing, soup, pulse, broad flat stone dish
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FOX, Mercury), 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 FOX | det |
| 2 | FOX | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 invited | nsubj |
| 3 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Crane | det |
| 5 | Crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 invited | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 supper | case |
| 7 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 invited | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 provided | cc |
| 9 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 invited | conj |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 provided | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 entertainment | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 entertainment | nmod:poss |
| 13 | entertainment | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 provided | obl |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 soup | cc |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 soup | det |
| 16 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 entertainment | conj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 soup | acl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 pulse | case |
| 19 | pulse | pulse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 poured | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 poured | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 poured | aux:pass |
| 23 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 pulse | acl:relcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 poured | compound:prt |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 dish | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 dish | det |
| 27 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dish | amod |
| 28 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dish | amod |
| 29 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dish | compound |
| 30 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 poured | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past | a FOX | a Crane | to supper | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crane=Recipient | |||
| 2 | provide | past | a FOX not said here | nothing | for Mercury's entertainment but some soup | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition nothing=Theme for entertainment=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | make | participle | some soup not said here | of pulse | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | pour out | past · passive | pulse | a broad flat stone dish | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into dish=Destination | ||||
| 5 | entertain | Mercury | nom entertainment «act 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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