Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 31
They tried with all their strength, and were not able to do it.
Who acts: Father · What happens: try, not be, do · To what, where: strength
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 (Father), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 strength | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 strength | det:predet |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 strength | nmod:poss |
| 6 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tried | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 able | cc |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 able | advmod |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tried | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Father | with Father's strength | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | strength | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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