Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 37
The Bat assured him that he was not a bird, but a mouse, and thus was set free.
Who acts: Bat, Grasshopper · What happens: assure, not be, be · To what, where: Grasshopper, bird
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 (Bat, Grasshopper), 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 Bat | det |
| 2 | Bat | Bat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 assured | nsubj |
| 3 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 assured | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 bird | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bird | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bird | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 bird | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 assured | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mouse | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 mouse | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mouse | det |
| 14 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bird | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 free | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 free | cc |
| 17 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 20 free | advmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 free | cop |
| 19 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 free | amod |
| 20 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 assured | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 assured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | past | the Bat | Grasshopper | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | Grasshopper | a bird but a mouse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | free, thus property | tree rules |
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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