Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 10
The Man who had been bitten laughed at this advice and said, “Why?
Who acts: Man · What happens: bite, laugh, say · To what, where: Man, advice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man), 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 Man | det |
| 2 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 bitten | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bitten | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 bitten | aux:pass |
| 6 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Man | acl:relcl |
| 7 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 advice | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 advice | det |
| 10 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laughed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laughed | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Why | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Why | punct |
| 15 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 said | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | past · perfect · passive | the Man | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | laugh | past | the Man | this advice | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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