Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 114
A BRAZIER had a little Dog, which was a great favourite with his master, and his constant companion.
Who acts: BRAZIER, little Dog · What happens: have, be · To what, where: little Dog, great favourite
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 (BRAZIER, little Dog), 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 | 2 BRAZIER | det |
| 2 | BRAZIER | BRAZIER | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Dog | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Dog | amod |
| 6 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 favourite | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 favourite | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 favourite | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 favourite | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 favourite | amod |
| 12 | favourite | favourite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Dog | appos |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 master | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 master | nmod:poss |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 favourite | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 companion | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 companion | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 companion | nmod:poss |
| 19 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 companion | amod |
| 20 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a BRAZIER | a little Dog | Dog's constant companion obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a little Dog | a great favourite | with Dog's master | 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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