Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 3
A WOLF saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a steep precipice, where he had no chance of reaching her.
Who acts: WOLF, Goat, chance · What happens: see, have, reach · To what, where: Goat feeding, summit, chance, her
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 (WOLF, Goat, chance), 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 WOLF | det |
| 2 | WOLF | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 feeding | det |
| 5 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 feeding | compound |
| 6 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 summit | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 summit | det |
| 9 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 precipice | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 precipice | det |
| 12 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 precipice | amod |
| 13 | precipice | precipice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 summit | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 had | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 chance | det |
| 19 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 reaching | mark |
| 21 | reaching | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 chance | acl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reaching | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | a WOLF | a Goat feeding | the summit of a steep precipice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeding=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | have | past | Goat | no chance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reach | gerund | no chance not said here | her = she | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=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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