Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 10
He thus addressed him: “Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me.”
Who acts: Lamb, you · What happens: address, insult · To what, where: Mouse, WOLF
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lamb, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 addressed | nsubj |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 addressed | advmod |
| 3 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 addressed | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sirrah | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sirrah | punct |
| 7 | Sirrah | Sirrah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 addressed | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 year | punct |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 year | amod |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Sirrah | appos |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 insulted | nsubj |
| 12 | grossly | grossly | ADV | _ | 13 insulted | advmod |
| 13 | insulted | insult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 year | acl:relcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 insulted | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sirrah | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | past | Lamb | Mouse | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | insult in a quote | past | you | WOLF | grossly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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