Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 3
Grieving over his loss, the Father resolved to kill the Snake.
Who acts: Father · What happens: grieve, resolve, kill · To what, where: loss, Snake
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 (Father), 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 | Grieving | grieve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 resolved | advcl |
| 2 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 loss | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 loss | nmod:poss |
| 4 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Grieving | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grieving | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Father | det |
| 7 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 resolved | nsubj |
| 8 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 kill | mark |
| 10 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 resolved | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Snake | det |
| 12 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kill | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | gerund | the Father not said here | Snake's loss | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | resolve | past | the Father | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | the Father not said here | the Snake | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme |
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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