Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 23
There are two celebrated works which might by some be classed amongst works of this description.
Who acts: two, description · What happens: be, celebrate, work, class · To what, where: some
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 (two, description), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 works | nsubj |
| 4 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 works | nsubj |
| 5 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 are | ccomp |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 might | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 works | obl |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 classed | mark |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 classed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 classed | aux:pass |
| 11 | classed | class | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 works | advcl |
| 12 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 13 works | case |
| 13 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 classed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 description | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 description | det |
| 16 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 works | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | there | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | celebrate | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | work | present | two | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | class | infinitive · passive | some | amongst works of this description | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | work | this description | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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