Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 11
They found no treasure, but the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and superabundant crop.
Who acts: sons, vines · What happens: find, repay · To what, where: treasure, labor
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, vines), 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 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 treasure | det |
| 4 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 repaid | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 repaid | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vines | det |
| 8 | vines | vine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 repaid | nsubj |
| 9 | repaid | repay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 labor | nmod:poss |
| 11 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 repaid | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 crop | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 crop | det |
| 14 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 crop | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 superabundant | cc |
| 16 | superabundant | superabundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 extraordinary | conj |
| 17 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 repaid | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | sons = son | no treasure | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic | ||||
| 2 | repay | past | the vines | sons's labor | by a extraordinary crop | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent labor=Recipient |
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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