Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 62
A DOG used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice.
Who acts: Dog · What happens: use, run up, meet, bite · To what, where: DOG, heels
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 (Dog), 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 DOG | det |
| 2 | DOG | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 run | mark |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 run | compound:prt |
| 7 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 heels | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heels | det |
| 10 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 run | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 everyone | case |
| 12 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 heels | nmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 met | nsubj |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bite | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bite | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 bite | mark |
| 18 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | advcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bite | obj |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 notice | case |
| 21 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bite | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle · passive | a DOG | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | run up | to-infinitive | to the heels of everyone result; quietly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to heel=Result | |||||
| 3 | meet | past | Dog | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bite | to-infinitive | heels = heel | without notice | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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