Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 146
The Lion replied: “This statue was made by one of you men.
Who acts: Lion, one men · What happens: reply, make · To what, where: statue · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lion, one men), 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 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 6 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 statue | det |
| 7 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux:pass |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 men | nummod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 one | nmod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | past · passive | one men | this statue | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
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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