Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 101
The generals, not being able to get in on account of the ornaments on their heads, were all captured and eaten by the Weasels.
Who acts: generals · What happens: not be, get in, capture, eat, account · To what, where: account, generals, ornaments
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 (generals), 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 generals | det |
| 2 | generals | general | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 captured | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 able | advmod |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 generals | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 account | case |
| 11 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ornaments | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ornaments | det |
| 14 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 account | nmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 heads | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heads | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ornaments | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 generals | punct |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 captured | aux:pass |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 captured | advmod |
| 21 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 eaten | cc |
| 23 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 captured | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 Weasels | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Weasels | det |
| 26 | Weasels | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 eaten | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 captured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | gerund | the generals not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get in | to-infinitive | the generals not said here | account of the ornaments on generals's heads | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on account=Source | ||||
| 3 | capture | past · passive | the generals | all property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | participle | by the Weasels | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | account | the ornaments on generals's heads | nom account «communication 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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