Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 43
A WIDOW who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her.
Who acts: WIDOW · What happens: be, have, wait · To what, where: two little maidens
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 (WIDOW), 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 WIDOW | det |
| 2 | WIDOW | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 fond | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fond | cop |
| 5 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 WIDOW | acl:relcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cleaning | case |
| 7 | cleaning | cleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fond | obl |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 maidens | nummod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 maidens | amod |
| 11 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 wait | mark |
| 13 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wait | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a WIDOW | of cleaning; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | a WIDOW | two little maidens | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wait | to-infinitive | a WIDOW not said here | on Body | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on she=Location |
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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