Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 30
A FOX one day fell into a deep well and could find no means of escape.
Who acts: FOX, no · What happens: fall, find, mean · To what, where: deep well · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (FOX, no), 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 | 2 FOX | det |
| 2 | FOX | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 FOX | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 well | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 well | det |
| 8 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 well | amod |
| 9 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 find | cc |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fell | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 means | nsubj |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 escape | case |
| 16 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 means | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a FOX one day | into a deep well result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into well=Result | ||||
| 2 | find | could | a FOX one day not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | no | of escape | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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