Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 72
“I notice that there are many prints of feet entering your cave, but I see no trace of any returning.”
Who acts: Fox, many prints, feet, any · What happens: notice, be, enter, see, return, print · To what, where: cave, trace, feet · 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, many prints, feet, any), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 notice | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 notice | nsubj |
| 3 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 are | mark |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 are | expl |
| 6 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 notice | ccomp |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 prints | amod |
| 8 | prints | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 are | nsubj | |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 prints | nmod |
| 11 | entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 feet | acl |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cave | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entering | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 notice | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 trace | det |
| 19 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 returning | mark |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 returning | nsubj |
| 22 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 trace | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 notice | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 notice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice in a quote | present | the Fox = fox | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | many prints of feet | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter in a quote | gerund | feet not said here | your cave | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cave=Destination | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present | the Fox = fox | no trace | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trace=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | return in a quote | gerund | any | no trace not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Theme | ||||
| 6 | print in a quote | feet | nom print «communication transitive»: of=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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