Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 76
AN EAGLE and a Fox formed an intimate friendship and decided to live near each other.
Who acts: AN EAGLE · What happens: form, decide, live · To what, where: intimate friendship, each
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 (AN EAGLE), 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 | AN | an | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 EAGLE | amod |
| 2 | EAGLE | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 formed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Fox | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Fox | det |
| 5 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 EAGLE | conj |
| 6 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 friendship | det |
| 8 | intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 friendship | amod |
| 9 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 formed | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 decided | cc |
| 11 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 formed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 live | mark |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 decided | xcomp |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 each | case |
| 15 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 13 live | obl |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 each | fixed |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past | AN EAGLE and a Fox | a intimate friendship | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location friendship=Theme | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | AN EAGLE and a Fox not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | AN EAGLE and a Fox not said here | each | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near each=Location |
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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