Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 7
Having tasted the honeycomb, he threw down his axe, and looking on the tree as sacred, took great care of it.
Who acts: Tree, axe · What happens: have, taste, throw down, look, take, care · To what, where: honeycomb, axe, great care
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 (Tree, axe), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 tasted | nsubj |
| 2 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 honeycomb | det |
| 4 | honeycomb | honeycomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tasted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 threw | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 threw | nsubj |
| 7 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tasted | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 threw | compound:prt |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 axe | nmod:poss |
| 10 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 took | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looking | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 sacred | case |
| 18 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 looking | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looking | punct |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tasted | conj |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 care | amod |
| 22 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 care | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | taste | past | the honeycomb | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme honeycomb=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | throw down | past | Tree | Tree's axe | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | as sacred; on the tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on tree=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take | past | great care of axe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 6 | care | axe | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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