Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 12
7 (return) [ M. Bayle has well put this in his account of Æsop.
Who acts: return, M. · What happens: put, account · To what, where: M., account, Æsop
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (return, M.), 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 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 7 | appos |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 5 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 6 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 put | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | Bayle | Bayle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 M. | flat |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | aux |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 put | advmod |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 return | acl |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 put | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 account | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 account | nmod:poss |
| 14 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Æsop | case |
| 16 | Æsop | Æsop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 account | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 7 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present · perfect · passive | return not said here | M. | M.'s account of Æsop | well property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset this=Goal | ||
| 2 | account | M. | Æsop | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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