Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 45
She ran off to her father, to be avenged on her Brother, and spitefully accused him of having, as a boy, made use of that which belonged only to girls.
Who acts: girl, made use · What happens: run off, avenge, accuse, have, make, belong · To what, where: FATHER, boy, girls, that
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 (girl, made use), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 father | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 avenged | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 avenged | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 avenged | aux:pass |
| 10 | avenged | avenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ran | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 Brother | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Brother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 avenged | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 accused | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 accused | cc |
| 16 | spitefully | spitefully | ADV | _ | 17 accused | advmod |
| 17 | accused | accuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 accused | obj |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 having | mark |
| 20 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 accused | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 boy | punct |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 boy | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 having | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 use | punct |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 use | amod |
| 27 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 having | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 that | case |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 use | nmod |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 belonged | nsubj |
| 31 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 use | acl:relcl |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 girls | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 girls | case |
| 34 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 belonged | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | girl | to girl's father result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to father=Result | ||||
| 2 | avenge | to-infinitive · passive | girl not said here | on girl's Brother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | accuse | past | girl not said here | FATHER | spitefully property | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | have | gerund | girl not said here | a boy | made use of that obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient | |||
| 5 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 6 | belong | past | made use of that | girls | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | use | that | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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