Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 80
Not long afterwards he saw the Cocks fighting together and not separating before one had well beaten the other.
Who acts: pilot, Cocks · What happens: see, fight, not separate, beat · To what, where: Cocks, one
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, Cocks), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 saw | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Cocks | det |
| 7 | Cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 Cocks | acl |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 fighting | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 separating | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 separating | advmod |
| 12 | separating | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 fighting | conj |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 beaten | mark |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 beaten | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 beaten | aux |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 beaten | advmod |
| 17 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 separating | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 other | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beaten | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | pilot | the Cocks | afterwards, long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cock=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fight | gerund | the Cocks not said here | together property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not separate | gerund | the Cocks not said here | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | beat | past · perfect · passive | one | well property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient other=Result |
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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