Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 128
A CONTROVERSY prevailed among the beasts of the field as to which of the animals deserved the most credit for producing the greatest number of whelps at a birth.
Who acts: CONTROVERSY · What happens: prevail, deserve, produce · To what, where: CONTROVERSY, credit, greatest number, birth
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 (CONTROVERSY), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 CONTROVERSY | det |
| 2 | CONTROVERSY | controversy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 deserved | nsubj |
| 3 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 CONTROVERSY | acl |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 beasts | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beasts | det |
| 6 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 prevailed | obl:agent |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 field | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 field | det |
| 9 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beasts | nmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 deserved | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 animals | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 animals | det |
| 15 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 deserved | nsubj |
| 16 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 credit | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 credit | advmod |
| 19 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 deserved | obj |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 producing | mark |
| 21 | producing | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 deserved | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 number | det |
| 23 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 number | amod |
| 24 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 producing | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 whelps | case |
| 26 | whelps | whelp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 number | nmod |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 birth | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 birth | det |
| 29 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 producing | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 deserved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevail | participle | a CONTROVERSY not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | deserve | past | a CONTROVERSY | the credit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | produce | gerund | a CONTROVERSY not said here | the greatest number of whelps | a birth | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Result |
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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