Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 4
She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing it backwards and forwards said, “O most delicious!
Who acts: She, drawing · What happens: place, draw, say · To what, where: Jar · 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 (She, drawing), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | greedily | greedily | ADV | _ | 3 placed | advmod |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 placed | obj |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 times | amod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 placed | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 nose | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 nose | nmod:poss |
| 9 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 12 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 said | csubj:pass |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drawing | obj |
| 14 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 12 drawing | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 16 | forwards | forwards | ADV | _ | 17 said | advmod |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 placed | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 delicious | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 delicious | punct |
| 20 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 22 delicious | case |
| 21 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 delicious | amod |
| 22 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | conj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | She | Jar | time | to her nose; greedily property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 2 | draw | gerund | Jar | backwards property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | participle | drawing | forwards property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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