Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 99
A CERTAIN HUNTER, having snared a hare, placed it upon his shoulders and set out homewards.
Who acts: CERTAIN HUNTER · What happens: have, snare, place, set out · To what, where: hare, windfall, shoulders, homewards
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 (CERTAIN HUNTER), 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 | 3 HUNTER | det |
| 2 | CERTAIN | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 HUNTER | amod |
| 3 | HUNTER | HUNTER | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 snared | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 HUNTER | punct |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 snared | reparandum |
| 6 | snared | snare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hare | det |
| 8 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 snared | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 placed | punct |
| 10 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 snared | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 placed | obj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 shoulders | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 placed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 placed | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 set | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 snared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | snare | past | a CERTAIN HUNTER | a hare | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hare=Theme | ||||
| 3 | place | past | a CERTAIN HUNTER not said here | windfall | hare's shoulders | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon shoulder=Destination | |||
| 4 | set out | infinitive | a CERTAIN HUNTER not said here | homewards | tree rules |
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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