Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 56
Evil tendencies are shown in early life.
What happens: show · To what, where: Evil tendencies
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 | Evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tendencies | amod |
| 2 | tendencies | tendency | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shown | aux:pass |
| 4 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 6 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 life | amod |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shown | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · passive | Evil tendencies | in early life | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in life=Topic |
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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