Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 2
A PEASANT had in his garden an Apple-Tree which bore no fruit but only served as a harbor for the sparrows and grasshoppers.
Who acts: PEASANT, Apple Tree · What happens: have, bear, serve · To what, where: garden, fruit
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 (PEASANT, Apple Tree), 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 PEASANT | det |
| 2 | PEASANT | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 garden | nmod:poss |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Tree | det |
| 8 | Apple | Apple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tree | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Apple | punct |
| 10 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bore | nsubj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 bore | nsubj |
| 12 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 fruit | det |
| 14 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bore | obj |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 served | cc |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 served | advmod |
| 17 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 bore | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 harbor | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 harbor | det |
| 20 | harbor | harbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 served | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 sparrows | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sparrows | det |
| 23 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 harbor | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 grasshoppers | cc |
| 25 | grasshoppers | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sparrows | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a PEASANT | his garden | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bear | past | a Apple Tree | no fruit | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | ||||
| 3 | serve | participle | a Apple Tree not said here | as a harbor for the sparrows and grasshoppers | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as harbor=Attribute |
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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