Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 2
A SNAKE, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a mortal bite on the Cottager’s infant son.
Who acts: SNAKE · What happens: make, inflict · To what, where: hole, mortal bite
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SNAKE), 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 SNAKE | det |
| 2 | SNAKE | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 inflicted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 4 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 made | aux |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 SNAKE | acl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hole | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 8 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hole | amod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 porch | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 porch | det |
| 11 | porch | porch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 close | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cottage | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cottage | det |
| 14 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 porch | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 SNAKE | punct |
| 16 | inflicted | inflict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bite | det |
| 18 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bite | amod |
| 19 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 inflicted | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 son | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Cottager | det |
| 22 | Cottager | cottager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Cottager | case |
| 24 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 son | amod |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 inflicted | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 inflicted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund · perfect | a SNAKE not said here | Snake's hole | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | ||||
| 2 | inflict | past | a SNAKE | a mortal bite | on the Cottager's infant son | 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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