Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 35
The Goat readily assented and the Fox leaped upon his back.
Who acts: Goat, Fox · What happens: assent, leap · To what, where: back
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 (Goat, Fox), 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 Goat | det |
| 2 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 assented | nsubj |
| 3 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 4 assented | advmod |
| 4 | assented | assent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 leaped | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fox | det |
| 7 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaped | nsubj |
| 8 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 assented | conj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 back | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 back | nmod:poss |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leaped | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 assented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assent | participle | the Goat | readily property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leap | past | the Fox | Fox's back | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon back=Trajectory |
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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