Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 27
A MAN had an Ass, and a Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty.
Who acts: MAN · What happens: have · To what, where: Ass
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 (MAN), 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 MAN | det |
| 2 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Ass | det |
| 5 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Lapdog | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Lapdog | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Lapdog | det |
| 9 | Maltese | maltese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Lapdog | amod |
| 10 | Lapdog | lapdog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beauty | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 beauty | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 great | advmod |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beauty | amod |
| 15 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Lapdog | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a MAN | a Ass | 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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