Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 77
One day by chance he found a tame Partridge for sale.
Who acts: pilot · What happens: find · To what, where: tame Partridge
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 (pilot), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 chance | case |
| 4 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Partridge | det |
| 8 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Partridge | amod |
| 9 | Partridge | partridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 sale | case |
| 11 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Partridge | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | pilot | a tame Partridge | day | for sale | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent partridge=Theme for sale=Beneficiary |
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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