Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 28
The Ass was left in a stable and had plenty of oats and hay to eat, just as any other Ass would.
What happens: leave, have, eat · To what, where: Ass, stable, plenty
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: 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 Ass | det |
| 2 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 stable | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stable | det |
| 7 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 10 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 oats | case |
| 12 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 plenty | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hay | cc |
| 14 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 oats | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 eat | mark |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hay | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 would | punct |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 would | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 would | mark |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 Ass | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Ass | amod |
| 22 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 would | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 eat | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | the Ass | a stable | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in stable=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | plenty of oats and hay | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | |||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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