Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 118
A WILD BOAR stood under a tree and rubbed his tusks against the trunk.
Who acts: WILD BOAR · What happens: stand, rub · To what, where: tree, tusks, trunk
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 (WILD BOAR), 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 BOAR | det |
| 2 | WILD | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 BOAR | amod |
| 3 | BOAR | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rubbed | cc |
| 9 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tusks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rubbed | obj |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 trunk | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trunk | det |
| 14 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rubbed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a WILD BOAR | a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | rub | past | a WILD BOAR not said here | Boar's tusks | the trunk | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tusk=Theme against trunk=Destination |
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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