Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 71
The Panther and the Shepherds The Partridge and the Fowler The Peacock and the Crane The Peacock and Juno The Peasant and the Apple-Tree The Peasant and the Eagle The Philosopher, the Ants, and Mercury The Playful Ass The Pomegranate, Apple-Tree, and Bramble The Porker, the Sheep, and the Goat The Prophet
Who acts: Mercury · What happens: ass
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 (Mercury), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Panther | det |
| 2 | Panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Partridge | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Shepherds | det |
| 5 | Shepherds | Shepherd | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Partridge | nsubj |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Partridge | det |
| 7 | Partridge | Partridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Panther | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Fowler | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fowler | det |
| 10 | Fowler | Fowler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Partridge | conj |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Peacock | det |
| 12 | Peacock | Peacock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fowler | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Crane | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Crane | det |
| 15 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Partridge | conj |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Peacock | det |
| 17 | Peacock | Peacock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Crane | appos |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Juno | cc |
| 19 | Juno | Juno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Partridge | conj |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Peasant | det |
| 21 | Peasant | Peasant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Juno | appos |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Tree | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Tree | det |
| 24 | Apple | Apple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Tree | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Apple | punct |
| 26 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Partridge | conj |
| 27 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Peasant | det |
| 28 | Peasant | Peasant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Tree | appos |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Eagle | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Eagle | det |
| 31 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Partridge | conj |
| 32 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Philosopher | det |
| 33 | Philosopher | Philosopher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Eagle | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Ants | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Ants | det |
| 36 | Ants | Ant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Partridge | appos |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Ass | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Ass | cc |
| 39 | Mercury | Mercury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Ass | nsubj |
| 40 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Ass | det |
| 41 | Playful | playful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Ass | amod |
| 42 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Panther | conj |
| 43 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Pomegranate | det |
| 44 | Pomegranate | Pomegranate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Ass | appos |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 Apple | punct |
| 46 | Apple | Apple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Pomegranate | conj |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 Tree | punct |
| 48 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Pomegranate | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 Bramble | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 Bramble | cc |
| 51 | Bramble | Bramble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Pomegranate | conj |
| 52 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 Porker | det |
| 53 | Porker | Porker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Bramble | appos |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 Sheep | punct |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 Sheep | det |
| 56 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 Pomegranate | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 Goat | punct |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 Goat | cc |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 Goat | det |
| 60 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Panther | appos |
| 61 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 Prophet | det |
| 62 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 Goat | flat |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ass | Mercury | 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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