Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 111
Some men are of more consequence in their own eyes than in the eyes of their neighbors.
Who acts: men · What happens: be · To what, where: own eyes
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 (men), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 consequence | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 consequence | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 consequence | case |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 consequence | amod |
| 6 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eyes | amod |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 consequence | nmod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eyes | det |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eyes | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 neighbors | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 17 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 eyes | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 consequence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some men | MAN's own eyes than the eyes of MAN's neighbors | of more consequence | tree rules |
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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