Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 46
THE SWALLOW and the Crow had a contention about their plumage.
Who acts: SWALLOW · What happens: have · To what, where: contention
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 (SWALLOW), 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 SWALLOW | det |
| 2 | SWALLOW | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Crow | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Crow | det |
| 5 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 SWALLOW | conj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 contention | det |
| 8 | contention | contention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 plumage | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 plumage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 contention | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the SWALLOW and the Crow | a contention | about Swallow's plumage | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contention=Patient |
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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