Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 67
It is full of fine oats, which I have left untouched for you, as you are a friend whom I would love to hear enjoying good eating.”
Who acts: field, you, I · What happens: be, leave, love, hear, enjoy · To what, where: fine oats, friend, good eating
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 (field, you, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 full | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | cop |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 oats | case |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 oats | amod |
| 6 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 full | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 left | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 left | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | aux |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 oats | conj |
| 12 | untouched | untouched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 left | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 untouched | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 friend | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 friend | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 friend | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 friend | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 friend | det |
| 20 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | advcl |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 love | obj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 love | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 love | aux |
| 24 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 friend | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 hear | mark |
| 26 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 love | xcomp |
| 27 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 hear | xcomp |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 eating | amod |
| 29 | eating | eating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 enjoying | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 full | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | field | of fine oats; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | present · perfect · passive | fine oats | untouched property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | you | as a friend | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love | would | I | a friend | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hear not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | enjoy | gerund | I not said here | good eating | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eating=Stimulus |
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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