Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 50
The larger the number of your family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this prison-house.”
Who acts: numbers, your · What happens: see, shut up, cause · To what, where: numbers, prison house, sorrow
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 (numbers, your), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 larger | det |
| 2 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 number | det |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 larger | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 family | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 family | nmod:poss |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 number | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cause | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cause | det |
| 10 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 cause | amod |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cause | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 larger | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sorrow | case |
| 14 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cause | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seeing | punct |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 seeing | mark |
| 17 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 larger | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 seeing | obj |
| 19 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 seeing | xcomp |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 shut | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 house | det |
| 23 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 house | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 prison | punct |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shut | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 larger | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 larger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | numbers = number | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shut up | participle | numbers = number not said here | this prison house | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cause | your | sorrow | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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