Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 124
A young Pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep.
What happens: shut up · To what, where: young Pig
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 Pig | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Pig | amod |
| 3 | Pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shut | aux:pass |
| 5 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 shut | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 yard | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 yard | det |
| 9 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yard | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 fold | punct |
| 11 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shut | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Goat | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Goat | det |
| 14 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 yard | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Sheep | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Sheep | det |
| 17 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Goat | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up | past · passive | a young Pig | in a fold yard with a Goat and a Sheep | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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