Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 117
THE ASS and the Fox, having entered into partnership together for their mutual protection, went out into the forest to hunt.
Who acts: ASS · What happens: enter, go out, hunt, protect · To what, where: ASS, partnership, forest
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 (ASS), 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 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ASS | det |
| 2 | ASS | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Fox | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fox | det |
| 5 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ASS | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 entered | punct |
| 7 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 entered | aux |
| 8 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 ASS | acl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 partnership | case |
| 10 | partnership | partnership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entered | obl |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 entered | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 protection | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 protection | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mutual | mutual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 protection | amod |
| 15 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entered | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ASS | punct |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 forest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forest | det |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 hunt | mark |
| 23 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 went | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund · perfect | the ASS and the Fox not said here | partnership | for Ass's mutual protection; together property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into partnership=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | go out | past | the ASS and the Fox | the forest | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | hunt | to-infinitive | the ASS and the Fox not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | protect | Ass | nom protection «act transitive»: poss=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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