Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 25
This he said deceitfully; but the Crow, anxious to refute the reflection cast upon her voice, set up a loud caw and dropped the flesh.
Who acts: This, Crow · What happens: say, refute, set up, drop · To what, where: reflection cast, loud caw, flesh · 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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | deceitfully | deceitfully | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 Crow | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 Crow | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Crow | det |
| 8 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 anxious | punct |
| 10 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Crow | amod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 refute | mark |
| 12 | refute | refute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 anxious | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cast | det |
| 14 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cast | compound |
| 15 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refute | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 voice | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 voice | nmod:poss |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refute | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 set | punct |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Crow | acl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 caw | det |
| 23 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 caw | amod |
| 24 | caw | caw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dropped | cc |
| 26 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 set | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 flesh | det |
| 28 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dropped | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | This | deceitfully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | refute | to-infinitive | This not said here | the reflection cast | upon Dog's voice | tree rules | |||
| 3 | set up | participle | the Crow not said here | a loud caw | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient caw=Result | ||||
| 4 | drop | past | the Crow not said here | the flesh | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=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.
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