Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 143
The Tanner put off his departure from time to time, saying that he would leave soon.
Who acts: Tanner · What happens: put off, say, leave, depart · To what, where: departure · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tanner), 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 Tanner | det |
| 2 | Tanner | Tanner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 departure | nmod:poss |
| 6 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 put | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 leave | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 leave | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 leave | aux |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 saying | ccomp |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 leave | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put off | past | the Tanner | Tanner's departure | time | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent departure=Goal | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Tanner not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave | would | Tanner | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | depart | Tanner | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=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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