Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 108
A GNAT settled on the horn of a Bull, and sat there a long time.
Who acts: GNAT · What happens: settle, sit · To what, where: GNAT
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (GNAT), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 GNAT | det |
| 2 | GNAT | gnat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 GNAT | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 horn | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horn | det |
| 6 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 settled | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Bull | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Bull | det |
| 9 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 horn | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sat | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sat | cc |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 sat | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | participle | a GNAT not said here | on the horn of a Bull | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on horn=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | a GNAT | there | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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