Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 134
A FOWLER caught a Partridge and was about to kill it.
Who acts: FOWLER · What happens: catch, be, kill · To what, where: Partridge, Fowler
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FOWLER), 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 FOWLER | det |
| 2 | FOWLER | fowler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Partridge | det |
| 5 | Partridge | Partridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 about | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 about | cop |
| 8 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 caught | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 kill | mark |
| 10 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 about | xcomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kill | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | a FOWLER | a Partridge | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partridge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a FOWLER not said here | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | a FOWLER not said here | Fowler | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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