Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 90
A TROUBLESOME CROW seated herself on the back of a Sheep.
Who acts: TROUBLESOME CROW · What happens: seat · To what, where: viper, back
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 (TROUBLESOME CROW), 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 | 3 CROW | det |
| 2 | TROUBLESOME | troublesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 CROW | amod |
| 3 | CROW | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seated | nsubj |
| 4 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 seated | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 back | det |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seated | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Sheep | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Sheep | det |
| 11 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 back | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past | a TROUBLESOME CROW | viper | the back of a Sheep | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value |
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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