Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 44
She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow.
Who acts: Body, habit · What happens: be, wake · To what, where: habit, 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 (Body, habit), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 habit | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 habit | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 habit | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 habit | det |
| 5 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 waking | mark |
| 7 | waking | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 habit | acl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 waking | obj |
| 9 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 waking | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 morning | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 morning | det |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cockcrow | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 cockcrow | case |
| 15 | cockcrow | cockcrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 habit | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 habit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Body | the habit and cockcrow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wake | gerund | the habit and cockcrow not said here | Maidens = maiden | morning | early property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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