Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 44
Seeing this, the man put a halter on him and led him back to his owner.
Who acts: man · What happens: see, put, lead · To what, where: this, halter, Ass
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 (man), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 put | csubj |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 halter | det |
| 8 | halter | halter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 put | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 led | cc |
| 12 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 led | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 led | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 owner | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 owner | nmod:poss |
| 17 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 back | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the man | a halter | on Ass | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent halter=Theme on he=Destination | |||
| 3 | lead | past | the man not said here | Ass | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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