Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 78
A CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house.
Who acts: CHARCOAL BURNER, Hare · What happens: carry, trade · To what, where: trade
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 (CHARCOAL BURNER, Hare), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 BURNER | det |
| 2 | CHARCOAL | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 BURNER | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 CHARCOAL | punct |
| 4 | BURNER | burner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | nsubj |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 trade | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 trade | nmod:poss |
| 8 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 house | amod |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | a CHARCOAL BURNER | Hare's trade | in Hare's own house | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location | |||
| 2 | trade | Hare | nom trade «act transitive»: poss=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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