Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 40
The Members carried out their resolve and refused their assistance to the Belly.
Who acts: Members · What happens: carry out, refuse, assist · To what, where: resolve, assistance
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 (Members), 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 Members | det |
| 2 | Members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 carried | compound:prt |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 resolve | nmod:poss |
| 6 | resolve | resolve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 refused | cc |
| 8 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | conj |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 assistance | nmod:poss |
| 10 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 refused | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Belly | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Belly | det |
| 13 | Belly | Belly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 refused | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry out | past | the Members | Members's resolve | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolve=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | refuse | past | the Members not said here | Members's assistance | to the Belly | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme | |||
| 3 | assist | Members = member | nom assistance «act 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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