Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 33
A HORSE SOLDIER took the utmost pains with his charger.
Who acts: HORSE SOLDIER · What happens: take · To what, where: utmost pains
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 (HORSE SOLDIER), 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 | 3 SOLDIER | det |
| 2 | HORSE | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 SOLDIER | compound |
| 3 | SOLDIER | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pains | det |
| 6 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pains | amod |
| 7 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 charger | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 charger | nmod:poss |
| 10 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | a HORSE SOLDIER | the utmost pains | with SOLDIER's charger | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=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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