Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 99
“Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer for.
Who acts: disposed Dogs · What happens: dispose, have, answer · To what, where: much
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 (disposed Dogs), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 2 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 Dogs | det |
| 3 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 disposed | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 evil | punct |
| 5 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Dogs | amod |
| 6 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 answer | mark |
| 10 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 much | acl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 answer | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dispose in a quote | participle | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | that disposed Dogs | much | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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