Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 35
AN ASS climbed up to the roof of a building, and frisking about there, broke in the tiling.
Who acts: ASS · What happens: climb up, frisk, break · To what, where: roof, tiling
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 (ASS), 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 | 2 ASS | det |
| 2 | ASS | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 climbed | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 roof | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roof | det |
| 7 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 building | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 building | det |
| 10 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roof | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 frisking | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 frisking | cc |
| 13 | frisking | frisk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 climbed | advcl |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 there | advmod |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 frisking | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 broke | punct |
| 17 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 tiling | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tiling | det |
| 20 | tiling | tiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 broke | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | a ASS | the roof of a building | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to roof=Destination | ||||
| 2 | frisk | gerund | a ASS not said here | there | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | break | past | the tiling | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tiling=Location |
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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