Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 50
THE BEASTS of the field and forest had a Lion as their king.
Who acts: BEASTS · What happens: have · To what, where: Lion
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 (BEASTS), 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 BEASTS | det |
| 2 | BEASTS | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 field | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 field | det |
| 5 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 BEASTS | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 forest | cc |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 field | conj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Lion | det |
| 10 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 king | nmod:poss |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the BEASTS of the field and forest | a Lion | as Lion's king | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=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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