Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 97
IN THE WINTERTIME, a Dog curled up in as small a space as possible on account of the cold, determined to make himself a house.
Who acts: Dog · What happens: curl up, make · To what, where: WINTERTIME, space
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 (Dog), 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 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 3 WINTERTIME | case |
| 2 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 WINTERTIME | det |
| 3 | WINTERTIME | wintertime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 curled | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 WINTERTIME | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Dog | det |
| 6 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 curled | nsubj |
| 7 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 curled | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 small | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 small | case |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 curled | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 space | det |
| 13 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 small | nsubj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 possible | mark |
| 15 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 small | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 account | case |
| 17 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 curled | obl |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 determined | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 determined | det |
| 20 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 determined | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cold | punct |
| 22 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 account | acl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 determined | xcomp |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 curled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curl up | participle | a Dog | the WINTERTIME | in small; on account | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | a Dog not said here | space | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary house=Product |
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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