Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 3
THE POMEGRANATE and Apple-Tree disputed as to which was the most beautiful.
Who acts: POMEGRANATE · What happens: dispute, be
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: who acts (POMEGRANATE), 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 POMEGRANATE | det |
| 2 | POMEGRANATE | pomegranate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disputed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Apple | cc |
| 4 | Apple | Apple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 POMEGRANATE | appos |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tree | punct |
| 6 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Apple | conj |
| 7 | disputed | dispute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 beautiful | mark |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 as | fixed |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 beautiful | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 beautiful | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beautiful | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 disputed | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 disputed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dispute | past | the POMEGRANATE | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | beautiful property | 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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