Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 111
The servant caught a severe cold, but he never changed his color or complexion.
Who acts: servant · What happens: catch, not change · To what, where: color
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 (servant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cold | det |
| 5 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cold | amod |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 caught | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 changed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 changed | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 changed | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 changed | advmod |
| 11 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 color | nmod:poss |
| 13 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 changed | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 complexion | cc |
| 15 | complexion | complexion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 color | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the servant | cold property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not change | past | servant | servant's color or complexion | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent color=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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