Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 54
While the two were reclining in their chamber, Venus wishing to discover if the Cat in her change of shape had also altered her habits of life, let down a mouse in the middle of the room.
Who acts: two, Venus, Cat, shape · What happens: recline, wish, discover, alter, let down, change · To what, where: chamber, habits, mouse, middle
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 (two, Venus, Cat, shape), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 reclining | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 two | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 reclining | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reclining | aux |
| 5 | reclining | recline | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 wishing | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 chamber | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 8 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reclining | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reclining | punct |
| 10 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wishing | nsubj |
| 11 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 discover | mark |
| 13 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wishing | xcomp |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 altered | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Cat | det |
| 16 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 altered | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 change | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 change | nmod:poss |
| 19 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Cat | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 shape | case |
| 21 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 change | nmod |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 altered | aux |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 altered | advmod |
| 24 | altered | alter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 discover | advcl |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 habits | nmod:poss |
| 26 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 altered | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 habits | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 let | punct |
| 30 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 discover | conj |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 let | compound:prt |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 mouse | det |
| 33 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 let | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 middle | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 middle | det |
| 36 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 let | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 room | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 room | det |
| 39 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 middle | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wishing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recline | past · progressive | the two | Cat's chamber | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chamber=Location | ||||
| 2 | wish | gerund | Venus | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | discover not said to happen | to-infinitive | Venus not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | alter a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | the Cat in Venus's change of shape | Venus's habits of life | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent habit=Patient | ||||
| 5 | let down | infinitive | Venus not said here | a mouse | the middle of the room | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme | |||
| 6 | change | shape | nom change «event intransitive»: of=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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