Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 96
The Serpent, turning about, bit the Crow with a mortal wound.
Who acts: Serpent · What happens: turn about, bite · To what, where: Crow
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 (Serpent), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Serpent | det |
| 2 | Serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bit | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 turning | punct |
| 4 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Serpent | acl |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 turning | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Serpent | punct |
| 7 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Crow | det |
| 9 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bit | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 wound | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wound | det |
| 12 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wound | amod |
| 13 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bit | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn about | gerund | the Serpent not said here | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bite | past | the Serpent | the Crow | with a mortal wound | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent crow=Patient with wound=Instrument |
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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