Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 51
He was neither wrathful, cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king could be.
Who acts: king · What happens: be
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 (king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wrathful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrathful | cop |
| 3 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 4 wrathful | advmod |
| 4 | wrathful | wrathful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cruel | punct |
| 6 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wrathful | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tyrannical | punct |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 tyrannical | cc |
| 9 | tyrannical | tyrannical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wrathful | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gentle | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 gentle | cc |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 gentle | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gentle | cc |
| 14 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wrathful | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 be | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 be | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 be | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 gentle | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrathful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king | neither, wrathful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | king not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | king not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | king not said here | 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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