Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 145
How strong we are, and how we prevail over even the king of beasts.”
Who acts: we · What happens: be, prevail over
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 (we), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 strong | advmod |
| 2 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 strong | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 strong | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 king | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 king | cc |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 prevail | advmod |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 prevail | nsubj |
| 9 | prevail | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 king | advcl |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 prevail | advmod |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 king | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 strong | parataxis |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 beasts | case |
| 15 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 king | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 king | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | we | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prevail over | present | we | over property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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