Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 92
On this the rustic produced the little pig from his cloak and showed by the most positive proof the greatness of their mistake.
Who acts: Buffoon · What happens: produce, show, mistake · To what, where: little pig, rustic
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 (Buffoon), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 rustic | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 rustic | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rustic | det |
| 4 | rustic | rustic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 produced | obl |
| 5 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pig | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pig | amod |
| 8 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 produced | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 cloak | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 produced | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 showed | cc |
| 13 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 produced | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 proof | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 proof | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 positive | advmod |
| 17 | positive | positive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 proof | amod |
| 18 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 showed | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 greatness | det |
| 20 | greatness | greatness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 proof | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mistake | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mistake | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 greatness | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 produced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | past | the little pig | this rustic | from pig's cloak | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent pig=Result from cloak=Material | |||
| 2 | show | past | by the positive proof | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mistake | Buffoon | nom mistake «act 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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