Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 66
A WOLF coming out of a field of oats met a Horse and thus addressed him: “I would advise you to go into that field.
Who acts: WOLF, Governor, you · What happens: come out, meet, address, advise, go · To what, where: field, Horse, you
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, Governor, you), 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 | 10 met | nsubj |
| 3 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 WOLF | acl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 field | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 field | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 field | det |
| 7 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coming | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 oats | case |
| 9 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 field | nmod |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Horse | det |
| 12 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 addressed | cc |
| 14 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 15 addressed | advmod |
| 15 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 met | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 addressed | obj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 advise | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 advise | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 advise | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 advise | aux |
| 21 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 addressed | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 advise | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 advise | xcomp |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 field | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 field | det |
| 27 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | gerund | a WOLF not said here | a field of oats | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient field=Result | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | a WOLF | a Horse | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | address | past | a WOLF not said here | Horse | thus property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | |||
| 4 | advise speech: other in a quote | would | the Governor = governor | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | go not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | that field | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location |
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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