Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 17
TWO GAME COCKS were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farmyard.
Who acts: TWO GAME COCKS · What happens: fight, master · To what, where: farmyard
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 (TWO GAME COCKS), 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 | TWO | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 COCKS | nummod |
| 2 | GAME | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 COCKS | compound |
| 3 | COCKS | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fighting | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fighting | aux |
| 5 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 6 fighting | advmod |
| 6 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 mastery | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mastery | det |
| 9 | mastery | mastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fighting | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 farmyard | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 farmyard | det |
| 12 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mastery | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fighting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · progressive | TWO GAME COCKS | for the mastery of the farmyard; fiercely property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | master | the farmyard | nom mastery «cognition transitive»: of=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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