Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 46
Thus the earth, the air, and the water alike refused shelter to a murderer.
Who acts: water · What happens: refuse · To what, where: shelter
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 (water), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 earth | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 earth | det |
| 3 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 air | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 earth | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 refused | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 refused | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refused | nsubj |
| 11 | alike | alike | ADV | _ | 12 refused | advmod |
| 12 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 earth | acl:relcl |
| 13 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refused | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 murderer | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 murderer | det |
| 16 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refused | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 earth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | the water | shelter | to a murderer; alike property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=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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