Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 72
AN AMARANTH planted in a garden near a Rose-Tree, thus addressed it: “What a lovely flower is the Rose, a favourite alike with Gods and with men.
Who acts: AN AMARANTH, lovely flower · What happens: plant, address, be · To what, where: garden, Rose
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 (AN AMARANTH, lovely flower), 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 | AN | an | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 AMARANTH | amod |
| 2 | AMARANTH | AMARANTH | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 planted | nsubj |
| 3 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 planted | obl |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 Tree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Tree | det |
| 9 | Rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Tree | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rose | punct |
| 11 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 planted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 addressed | punct |
| 13 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 14 addressed | advmod |
| 14 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 planted | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 addressed | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 Rose | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Rose | punct |
| 18 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 21 flower | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 flower | det |
| 20 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 flower | amod |
| 21 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Rose | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Rose | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Rose | det |
| 24 | Rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 addressed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 alike | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 alike | det |
| 27 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 alike | amod |
| 28 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Rose | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 Gods | case |
| 30 | Gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 alike | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 men | cc |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 men | case |
| 33 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 Gods | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 planted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | participle | AN AMARANTH | a garden | near a Rose Tree | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in garden=Destination | |||
| 2 | address | past | AN AMARANTH not said here | garden | thus property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | what lovely flower | the Rose | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | what lovely flower not said here | with Gods and men | 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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