Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 110
On bringing him home he resorted to every means of cleaning, and subjected the man to incessant scrubbings.
Who acts: PURCHASER · What happens: bring, resort, mean, subject · To what, where: PURCHASER, man
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 (PURCHASER), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 bringing | mark |
| 2 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 resorted | advcl |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bringing | obj |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 bringing | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 resorted | nsubj |
| 6 | resorted | resort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 every | case |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 means | obl |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 resorted | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cleaning | case |
| 11 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 subjected | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 subjected | cc |
| 14 | subjected | subject | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 resorted | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 subjected | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 scrubbings | case |
| 18 | incessant | incessant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 scrubbings | amod |
| 19 | scrubbings | scrubbing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 subjected | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 resorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | gerund | PURCHASER not said here | PURCHASER | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 2 | resort | past | PURCHASER | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | to every; of cleaning | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to every=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | subject | past | PURCHASER not said here | the man | to incessant scrubbings | tree rules |
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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