Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 30
A WOLF accused a Fox of theft, but the Fox entirely denied the charge.
Who acts: WOLF, Fox · What happens: accuse, deny · To what, where: Fox, charge
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, Fox), 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 accused | nsubj |
| 3 | accused | accuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Fox | det |
| 5 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accused | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 theft | case |
| 7 | theft | theft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Fox | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 denied | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 denied | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fox | det |
| 11 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 denied | nsubj |
| 12 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 13 denied | advmod |
| 13 | denied | deny | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accused | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 charge | det |
| 15 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 denied | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accuse | past | a WOLF | a Fox of theft | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent fox=Theme | ||||
| 2 | deny | past | the Fox | the charge | entirely property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent charge=Eventuality |
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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