Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 60
When the Cobbler happened to fall sick himself of a serious illness, the Governor of the town determined to test his skill.
Who acts: Cobbler, Governor · What happens: happen, fall, determine, test · To what, where: COBBLER, serious illness, skill
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 (Cobbler, Governor), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 happened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cobbler | det |
| 3 | Cobbler | Cobbler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fall | mark |
| 6 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happened | xcomp |
| 7 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fall | xcomp |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 fall | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 illness | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 illness | det |
| 11 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 illness | amod |
| 12 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fall | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Governor | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Governor | det |
| 15 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 determined | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 town | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 town | det |
| 18 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Governor | nmod |
| 19 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 illness | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 test | mark |
| 21 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 determined | xcomp |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 skill | nmod:poss |
| 23 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 test | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the Cobbler | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fall | to-infinitive | the Cobbler not said here | COBBLER | of a serious illness; sick property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of illness=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | determine | past | the Governor of the town | a serious illness not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | test | to-infinitive | the Governor of the town not said here | COBBLER's skill | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=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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