Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 76
Slow but steady wins the race.
Who acts: Slow · What happens: win · To what, where: race
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 (Slow), 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 | Slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wins | nsubj |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 steady | cc |
| 3 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Slow | conj |
| 4 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 race | det |
| 6 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wins | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wins | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | Slow | the race | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality |
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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