Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 16
They quickly agreed to exchange the produce of their day’s sport.
Who acts: Huntsman, day · What happens: agree, exchange, sport · To what, where: produce
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 (Huntsman, day), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 agreed | advmod |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 exchange | mark |
| 5 | exchange | exchange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 agreed | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 produce | det |
| 7 | produce | produce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 exchange | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sport | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 day | nmod:poss |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sport | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 day | case |
| 12 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 produce | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Huntsman | quickly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | exchange not said to happen | to-infinitive | Huntsman not said here | the produce of Huntsman's day's sport | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent produce=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sport | Huntsman's day | nom sport «act intransitive»: poss=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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