Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 31
A FOX entered into partnership with a Lion on the pretense of becoming his servant.
Who acts: FOX, pretense · What happens: enter, become · To what, where: partnership, servant
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 (FOX, pretense), 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 FOX | det |
| 2 | FOX | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 partnership | case |
| 5 | partnership | partnership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Lion | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Lion | det |
| 8 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 pretense | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pretense | det |
| 11 | pretense | pretense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obl |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 becoming | mark |
| 13 | becoming | become | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 pretense | acl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 servant | nmod:poss |
| 15 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 becoming | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | a FOX | partnership | with a Lion; on the pretense | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into partnership=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | become | gerund | the pretense not said here | Fox's servant | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient servant=Result |
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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