Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 49
A Crow hearing her, said: “My good friend, cease from this unseasonable boasting.
Who acts: Crow · What happens: hear, say · To what, where: Crow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Crow), 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 Crow | det |
| 2 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Crow | acl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hearing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Crow | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 friend | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 friend | punct |
| 9 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 friend | amod |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cease | punct |
| 13 | cease | cease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 friend | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 boasting | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 boasting | det |
| 16 | unseasonable | unseasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boasting | amod |
| 17 | boasting | boasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cease | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | a Crow not said here | Crow | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a Crow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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