Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 5
The Frog, puffing herself out, inquired, “if the beast was as big as that in size.”
Who acts: Frog, beast · What happens: puff out, inquire, be · To what, where: Frog, size · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Frog, beast), 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 Frog | det |
| 2 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 puffing | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 puffing | punct |
| 4 | puffing | puff | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 puffing | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 puffing | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 inquired | punct |
| 8 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 puffing | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 big | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 big | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 big | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beast | det |
| 13 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 big | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 big | cop |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 big | advmod |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 inquired | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 that | case |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 big | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 size | case |
| 20 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 big | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 puffing | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 puffing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puff out | gerund | the Frog | Frog | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Source | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | participle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | the beast | size | as that; big property | tree rules |
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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