Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 24
A CHARGER, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill instead of going out to battle.
Who acts: CHARGER · What happens: feel, send, work, go out, battle · To what, where: infirmities, CHARGER
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 (CHARGER), 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 CHARGER | det |
| 2 | CHARGER | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
| 4 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 CHARGER | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 infirmities | det |
| 6 | infirmities | infirmity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 feeling | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 age | case |
| 8 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 infirmities | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 CHARGER | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sent | aux:pass |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 work | mark |
| 13 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sent | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 mill | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mill | det |
| 16 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 work | obl |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 19 going | mark |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 instead | fixed |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 work | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 going | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 battle | mark |
| 22 | battle | battle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 going | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | a CHARGER not said here | the infirmities of age | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infirmity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past · passive | a CHARGER | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | a CHARGER not said here | in a mill | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mill=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go out | gerund | a CHARGER not said here | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | battle | to-infinitive | a CHARGER not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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