Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 17
Each was so well pleased with his bargain that they made for some time the same exchange day after day.
Who acts: Each, Huntsman, Fisherman · What happens: be, make, bargain · To what, where: bargain
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 (Each, Huntsman, Fisherman), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bargain | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bargain | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bargain | acl:relcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 day | amod |
| 17 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 day | compound |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 day | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Each | with Fisherman's bargain; pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Huntsman | Fisherman's bargain not said here | day; time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bargain=Product | |||
| 3 | bargain | Fisherman | nom bargain «communication 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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