Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 31
The Monkey approached carelessly and was caught in the trap; and on his accusing the Fox of purposely leading him into the snare, she replied, “O Monkey, and are you, with such a mind as yours, going to be King over the Beasts?”
Who acts: Monkey, beast, you · What happens: approach, catch, accuse, lead, reply, be · To what, where: trap, Monkey, snare, Beasts, King · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Monkey, beast, you), 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 Monkey | det |
| 2 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approached | nsubj |
| 3 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 3 approached | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 caught | cc |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 caught | aux:pass |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 approached | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 trap | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trap | det |
| 10 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 Fox | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Fox | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 Fox | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Fox | nmod:poss |
| 15 | accusing | accuse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 Fox | amod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fox | det |
| 17 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approached | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 leading | mark |
| 19 | purposely | purposely | ADV | _ | 20 leading | advmod |
| 20 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 Fox | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 leading | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 snare | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 snare | det |
| 24 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leading | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 replied | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 replied | nsubj |
| 27 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 approached | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Monkey | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Monkey | punct |
| 30 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 31 Monkey | discourse |
| 31 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 replied | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 mind | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 mind | cc |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 mind | cop |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 mind | nsubj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 mind | punct |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 mind | case |
| 38 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 mind | det:predet |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 mind | det |
| 40 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 replied | obl |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 yours | case |
| 42 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 mind | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 going | punct |
| 44 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 replied | advcl |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 King | mark |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 King | cop |
| 47 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 going | obl |
| 48 | over | over | ADP | _ | 50 Beasts | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 Beasts | det |
| 50 | Beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 going | obl |
| 51 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 44 going | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | the Monkey | carelessly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | past · passive | the Monkey not said here | the trap | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | accuse | gerund | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | lead | gerund | the Monkey not said here | Monkey | the snare | purposely property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into snare=Destination | ||
| 5 | reply speech: ask | past | beast | Monkey | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | you | with such mind; as yours | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go in a quote | gerund | beast not said here | the Beasts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over beast=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | King | tree rules |
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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