Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 39
They assembled on a certain day to carry out their purpose, and sharpened their horns for the contest.
Who acts: Oxen · What happens: assemble, carry out, sharpen, purpose · To what, where: purpose, horns
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 (Oxen), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 assembled | nsubj |
| 2 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 assembled | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 carry | mark |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 assembled | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 carry | compound:prt |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 11 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carry | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sharpened | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sharpened | cc |
| 14 | sharpened | sharpen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 assembled | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 horns | nmod:poss |
| 16 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sharpened | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 contest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 contest | det |
| 19 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sharpened | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past | Oxen | day | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry out | to-infinitive | Oxen not said here | Oxen's purpose | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | sharpen | past | Oxen not said here | Oxen's horns | for the contest | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | |||
| 4 | purpose | Oxen | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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