Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 19
As they were on the bare plowlands, eating there wheat-stocks and roots pulled up from the hedgerow, the Town Mouse said to his friend, “You live here the life of the ants, while in my house is the horn of plenty.
Who acts: Mouse, Town Mouse, friend · What happens: be, eat, pull up, say, live · To what, where: eating wheat stocks, friend, horn, house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mouse, Town Mouse, friend), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 7 plowlands | case |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 plowlands | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 plowlands | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 plowlands | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plowlands | det |
| 6 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plowlands | amod |
| 7 | plowlands | plowland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eating | punct |
| 9 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 stocks | amod |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 eating | advmod |
| 11 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stocks | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 wheat | punct |
| 13 | stocks | stock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 plowlands | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 roots | cc |
| 15 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stocks | conj |
| 16 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 stocks | acl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 pulled | compound:prt |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 hedgerow | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hedgerow | det |
| 20 | hedgerow | hedgerow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pulled | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 plowlands | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Mouse | det |
| 23 | Town | Town | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Mouse | compound |
| 24 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 friend | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 friend | nmod:poss |
| 28 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 live | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 live | punct |
| 31 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 live | nsubj |
| 32 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | conj |
| 33 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 live | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 life | det |
| 35 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 here | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 ants | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ants | det |
| 38 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 life | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 horn | punct |
| 40 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 46 horn | mark |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 house | case |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 house | nmod:poss |
| 43 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 horn | obl |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 horn | cop |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 horn | det |
| 46 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 live | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 plenty | case |
| 48 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 horn | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mouse | as the bare plowlands | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | there | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pull up | participle | eating wheat stocks and roots not said here | from the hedgerow | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from hedgerow=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Town Mouse | disappointment's friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | live in a quote | present | disappointment's friend = friend | here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | the horn | my house | of plenty | tree rules |
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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