Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 63
His master suspended a bell about his neck so that the Dog might give notice of his presence wherever he went.
Who acts: master, Dog · What happens: suspend, give, go, notice · To what, where: bell, notice, presence
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 (master, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 master | nmod:poss |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suspended | nsubj |
| 3 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bell | det |
| 5 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suspended | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 neck | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neck | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suspended | obl |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 give | mark |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 so | fixed |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Dog | det |
| 12 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 suspended | advcl |
| 15 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 presence | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 presence | nmod:poss |
| 18 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 notice | nmod |
| 19 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 went | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suspended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspend | past | Dog's master | a bell | about Dog's neck | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bell=Theme about neck=Destination | |||
| 2 | give | might | the Dog | notice of Dog's presence | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Dog | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | notice | Dog's presence | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=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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