Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 59
The Dog, wagging his tail, replied: “O, master!
Who acts: Dog · What happens: wag, reply · To what, where: tail, master
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 (Dog), 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 Dog | det |
| 2 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wagging | punct |
| 4 | wagging | wag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Dog | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tail | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wagging | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dog | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 master | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 master | punct |
| 11 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 13 master | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 master | punct |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wag | gerund | the Dog not said here | Dog's tail | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Dog | master | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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