Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 56
Venus was much disappointed and again caused her to return to her former shape.
Who acts: Venus · What happens: be, cause, return · To what, where: Venus
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 (Venus), 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 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 disappointed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disappointed | cop |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 disappointed | advmod |
| 4 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 caused | cc |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 caused | advmod |
| 7 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disappointed | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caused | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 return | mark |
| 10 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 caused | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 shape | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shape | nmod:poss |
| 13 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shape | amod |
| 14 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 return | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 disappointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Venus | disappointed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cause | past | Venus not said here | Venus | again | tree rules | |||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | Venus not said here | to Venus's former shape result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shape=Result |
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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