Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 49
A Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves.
Who acts: Goat · What happens: pass by, nibble · To what, where: young tendrils
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 (Goat), 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 Goat | det |
| 2 | Goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nibbled | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 passing | punct |
| 4 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Goat | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 passing | fixed |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Goat | punct |
| 7 | nibbled | nibble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tendrils | nmod:poss |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tendrils | amod |
| 10 | tendrils | tendril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 nibbled | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 leaves | cc |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 13 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tendrils | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 nibbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | gerund | a Goat not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | nibble | past | a Goat | Goat's young tendrils and Goat's leaves | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tendril=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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