Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 23
“How handsome is the Crow,” he exclaimed, “in the beauty of her shape and in the fairness of her complexion!
Who acts: handsome Crow · What happens: be, exclaim · To what, where: handsome Crow, beauty · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (handsome Crow), 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 | _ | 6 Crow | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 handsome | advmod |
| 3 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Crow | amod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Crow | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Crow | det |
| 6 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Crow | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Crow | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 10 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beauty | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 beauty | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 beauty | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beauty | det |
| 15 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exclaimed | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 shape | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shape | nmod:poss |
| 18 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beauty | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fairness | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 fairness | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fairness | det |
| 22 | fairness | fairness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shape | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 complexion | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 complexion | nmod:poss |
| 25 | complexion | complexion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fairness | nmod |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the handsome Crow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the handsome Crow | the beauty of Dog's shape and the fairness of Dog's complexion | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent beauty=Topic |
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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