Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 56
A general laugh saluted her on the presentation of her son.
Who acts: general laugh · What happens: salute, present · To what, where: Mother, presentation, son
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 (general laugh), 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 | 3 laugh | det |
| 2 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 laugh | amod |
| 3 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saluted | nsubj |
| 4 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saluted | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 presentation | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 presentation | det |
| 8 | presentation | presentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saluted | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 son | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 presentation | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saluted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | salute | past | a general laugh | Mother | the presentation of Mother's son | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||
| 2 | present | Mother's son | nom presentation «act transitive»: of=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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