Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 3

AN OLD WOMAN found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old wine and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former contents.

Who acts: OLD WOMAN, empty jar, prime old wine, former contents · What happens: find, have, be, retain, smell · To what, where: empty jar, fragrant smell

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 (OLD WOMAN, empty jar, prime old wine, former contents), 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	AN	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 WOMAN	det
2	OLD	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 WOMAN	amod
3	WOMAN	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 jar	det
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 jar	amod
7	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 jar	acl:relcl
10	lately	lately	ADV	_	12 full	advmod
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 full	cop
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 had	xcomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 wine	case
14	prime	prime	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wine	amod
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wine	amod
16	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 full	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 retained	cc
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 retained	nsubj
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 retained	advmod
20	retained	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wine	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 smell	det
22	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 smell	amod
23	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 retained	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 contents	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 contents	nmod:poss
26	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 contents	amod
27	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	23 smell	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	a OLD WOMAN	a empty jar			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Topic
2	have	past	a empty jar				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	participle	a empty jar not said here			of prime old wine; full, lately property	tree rules
4	retain	past	prime old wine	the fragrant smell of Jar's former contents	still		tree rules
5	smell		Jar's former contents				nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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