Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 125
The eggs, allowing for all mishaps, will produce two hundred and fifty chickens.
Who acts: eggs · What happens: allow, produce · To what, where: hundred chickens
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 (eggs), 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 eggs | det |
| 2 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 produce | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 allowing | punct |
| 4 | allowing | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 eggs | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 mishaps | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 mishaps | det |
| 7 | mishaps | mishap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 allowing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 eggs | punct |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 produce | aux |
| 10 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 hundred | compound |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 chickens | nummod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fifty | cc |
| 14 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 hundred | conj |
| 15 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 produce | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 produce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | gerund | the eggs not said here | for all mishaps goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for mishap=Goal | ||||
| 2 | produce | future | the eggs | hundred chickens | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Result |
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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