Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 94
The Youth, advanced to adulthood, proceeded to steal things of still greater value.
Who acts: Youth · What happens: advance, proceed, steal · To what, where: Youth, adulthood, things
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 (Youth), 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 Youth | det |
| 2 | Youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 proceeded | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 advanced | punct |
| 4 | advanced | advance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Youth | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 adulthood | case |
| 6 | adulthood | adulthood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advanced | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Youth | punct |
| 8 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 steal | mark |
| 10 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 proceeded | xcomp |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 steal | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 value | case |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 greater | advmod |
| 14 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 value | amod |
| 15 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 things | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | participle | the Youth not said here | adulthood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to adulthood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | proceed | past | the Youth | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | steal | to-infinitive | the Youth not said here | things of greater value | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme |
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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