Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 48
A DOVE shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of young ones which she had hatched.
Who acts: DOVE · What happens: shut up, boast, hatch · To what, where: DOVE, cage, young ones
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 (DOVE), 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 DOVE | det |
| 2 | DOVE | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boasting | nsubj |
| 3 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 DOVE | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 shut | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cage | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cage | det |
| 7 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shut | obl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 boasting | aux |
| 9 | boasting | boast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 number | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 number | det |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 number | amod |
| 13 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boasting | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ones | case |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ones | amod |
| 16 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 number | nmod |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 hatched | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hatched | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hatched | aux |
| 20 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 ones | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 boasting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up | participle | a DOVE not said here | a cage | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | boast speech: other | past · progressive | a DOVE | of the large number of young ones | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hatch | past · perfect · passive | young ones | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=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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