Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 13
A HEIFER saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor.
Who acts: HEIFER, treasure · What happens: see, harness, torment, compel, fate · To what, where: Ox, work, treasure, unhappy fate
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 (HEIFER, treasure), 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 HEIFER | det |
| 2 | HEIFER | heifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Ox | det |
| 5 | Ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 work | case |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 9 | harnessed | harness | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 work | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 plow | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 plow | det |
| 12 | plow | plow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 harnessed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tormented | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tormented | cc |
| 15 | tormented | torment | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tormented | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 reflections | case |
| 18 | reflections | reflection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tormented | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 fate | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 fate | nmod:poss |
| 21 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fate | amod |
| 22 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tormented | obl |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 25 compelled | mark |
| 24 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 compelled | aux:pass |
| 25 | compelled | compel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tormented | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 labor | case |
| 27 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 compelled | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | a HEIFER | a Ox | work | hard property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ox=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | harness | participle | work not said here | to a plow | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to plow=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | torment | past | a HEIFER not said here | treasure | treasure's unhappy fate | with reflections | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||
| 4 | compel | gerund · passive | a HEIFER not said here | to labor | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 5 | fate | treasure | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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