Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 105
THE OLIVE-TREE ridiculed the Fig-Tree because, while she was green all the year round, the Fig-Tree changed its leaves with the seasons.
Who acts: OLIVE TREE, Horseman, Fig Tree · What happens: ridicule, be, change · To what, where: Fig Tree, leaves
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (OLIVE TREE, Horseman, Fig Tree), 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 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 TREE | det |
| 2 | OLIVE | olive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 TREE | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 OLIVE | punct |
| 4 | TREE | TREE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ridiculed | nsubj |
| 5 | ridiculed | ridicule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tree | det |
| 7 | Fig | Fig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Tree | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fig | punct |
| 9 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ridiculed | obj |
| 10 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 ridiculed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 green | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 green | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 green | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 green | cop |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ridiculed | parataxis |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 year | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 year | det |
| 18 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 green | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | round | round | ADV | _ | 15 green | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 changed | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Tree | det |
| 22 | Fig | Fig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Tree | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Fig | punct |
| 24 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 changed | nsubj |
| 25 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ridiculed | conj |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 27 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 changed | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 seasons | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 seasons | det |
| 30 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 changed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ridiculed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ridicule | past | the OLIVE TREE | the Fig Tree | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Horseman | year | green, round property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | change | past | the Fig Tree | tree's leaves | season | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
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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