Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 92
To this the Crow replied, “I despise the weak and yield to the strong.
Who acts: I · What happens: reply, despise, yield · To what, where: Crow, weak · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 Crow | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Crow | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Crow | det |
| 4 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obl |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 despise | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 despise | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 despise | nsubj |
| 9 | despise | despise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 weak | det |
| 11 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 despise | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 yield | cc |
| 13 | yield | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 despise | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 strong | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 strong | det |
| 16 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 yield | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | this Crow | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to crow=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | despise in a quote | present | I | the weak | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer weak=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | yield in a quote | present | I not said here | to the strong | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to strong=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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