Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 114
A MOUSE who always lived on the land, by an unlucky chance formed an intimate acquaintance with a Frog, who lived for the most part in the water.
Who acts: MOUSE, intimate acquaintance · What happens: live, form · To what, where: land, intimate acquaintance
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 (MOUSE, intimate acquaintance), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 MOUSE | det |
| 2 | MOUSE | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 formed | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 lived | advmod |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 MOUSE | acl:relcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 chance | punct |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 chance | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chance | det |
| 12 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 chance | amod |
| 13 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 14 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 acquaintance | det |
| 16 | intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 acquaintance | amod |
| 17 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 formed | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 Frog | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Frog | det |
| 20 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 acquaintance | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lived | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 lived | nsubj |
| 23 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 acquaintance | acl:relcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 part | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 part | det |
| 26 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 part | amod |
| 27 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lived | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 water | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 water | det |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 part | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a MOUSE | the land | by a unlucky chance; always property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location | |||
| 2 | form | past | a MOUSE | a intimate acquaintance | with a Frog | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location acquaintance=Theme | |||
| 3 | live | past | a intimate acquaintance | for the most part in the water | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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