Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 2
A VIPER, entering the workshop of a smith, sought from the tools the means of satisfying his hunger.
Who acts: VIPER, his · What happens: enter, seek, mean, satisfy, hunger · To what, where: workshop, VIPER, tools, hunger
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 (VIPER, his), 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 VIPER | det |
| 2 | VIPER | viper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 means | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 entering | punct |
| 4 | entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 VIPER | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 workshop | det |
| 6 | workshop | workshop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entering | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 smith | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 smith | det |
| 9 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 workshop | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sought | punct |
| 11 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 VIPER | acl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 tools | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tools | det |
| 14 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sought | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 means | nsubj |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 satisfying | mark |
| 18 | satisfying | satisfy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 means | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 satisfying | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | a VIPER not said here | the workshop of a smith | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme workshop=Destination | ||||
| 2 | seek | participle | a VIPER not said here | the tools | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | a VIPER | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | satisfy | gerund | a VIPER not said here | his hunger | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | hunger | his = he | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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