Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 115
The Fox, unable even to taste it, met with a fitting requital, after the fashion of her own hospitality.
What happens: taste, meet · To what, where: neck
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: 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 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 unable | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 unable | punct |
| 4 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 taste | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 taste | mark |
| 7 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 unable | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taste | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 met | punct |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unable | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 requital | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 requital | det |
| 13 | fitting | fitting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 requital | amod |
| 14 | requital | requital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fashion | punct |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 fashion | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fashion | det |
| 18 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hospitality | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hospitality | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hospitality | amod |
| 22 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fashion | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taste | to-infinitive | neck | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | after the fashion of Fox's own hospitality | with a fitting requital | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with requital=Co-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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