Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 124
“The money for which this milk will be sold, will buy at least three hundred eggs.
Who acts: money · What happens: sell, buy · To what, where: milk, hundred eggs
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 (money), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 buy | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 money | det |
| 3 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 buy | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sold | obl |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 milk | det |
| 7 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sold | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sold | aux:pass |
| 10 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 money | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 money | punct |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 buy | aux |
| 13 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 least | case |
| 15 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 three | nmod |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hundred | compound |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 eggs | nummod |
| 18 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 buy | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell in a quote | future · passive | this milk | for the money | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for which=Asset | ||||
| 2 | buy in a quote | future | the money | hundred eggs | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/124/