Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 11
“Indeed,” bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, “I was not then born.”
What happens: bleat, not bear, intonate · To what, where: Lamb, mournful tone, WOLF, voice
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bleated | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 bleated | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 5 | bleated | bleat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lamb | det |
| 7 | Lamb | Lamb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bleated | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tone | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tone | det |
| 10 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tone | amod |
| 11 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bleated | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 voice | case |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tone | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 born | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 born | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 born | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 born | aux:pass |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 born | advmod |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 born | advmod |
| 20 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bleated | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bleated | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bleated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bleat | past | the Lamb | a mournful tone of voice | indeed property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme | |||
| 2 | not bear in a quote | past · passive | WOLF | then | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | intonate | voice | nom tone «communication transitive»: 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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