Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 12
I have no arms, and carry nothing but this one brass trumpet.”
Who acts: I · What happens: have, carry · To what, where: arms, nothing
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 arms | det |
| 4 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 carry | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 carry | cc |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 carry | obj |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 trumpet | cc |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 trumpet | det |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 brass | nummod |
| 12 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trumpet | compound |
| 13 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nothing | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | no arms | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | nothing | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
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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