Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 17
The Sheep eating the acorns inadvertently frayed and tore the cloak.
Who acts: Sheep · What happens: eat, fray, tore · To what, where: acorns, cloak
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 (Sheep), 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 Sheep | det |
| 2 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 frayed | nsubj |
| 3 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Sheep | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 acorns | det |
| 5 | acorns | acorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eating | obj |
| 6 | inadvertently | inadvertently | ADV | _ | 3 eating | advmod |
| 7 | frayed | fray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tore | cc |
| 9 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 frayed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cloak | det |
| 11 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tore | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 frayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | gerund | the Sheep not said here | the acorns | inadvertently property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acorn=Patient | |||
| 2 | fray | past | the Sheep | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | tore | past | the Sheep not said here | the cloak | tree rules |
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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