Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 90
All the beasts came to visit their king, except the Fox.
Who acts: beasts · What happens: come, visit · To what, where: king
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 (beasts), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 beasts | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beasts | det |
| 3 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 visit | mark |
| 6 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | xcomp |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 king | nmod:poss |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 visit | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Fox | punct |
| 10 | except | except | ADP | _ | 12 Fox | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fox | det |
| 12 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | all beasts | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | visit | to-infinitive | all beasts not said here | beasts's king and the Fox | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent |
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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