Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 48
Those lazy fellows have not even swept the cobwebs away.”
Who acts: lazy fellows · What happens: have, not sweep away · To what, where: cobwebs
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 (lazy fellows), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 fellows | det |
| 2 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fellows | amod |
| 3 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 swept | advmod |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 swept | advmod |
| 7 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cobwebs | det |
| 9 | cobwebs | cobweb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 swept | obj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 swept | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | that lazy fellows | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not sweep away | past | that lazy fellows not said here | the cobwebs | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cobweb=Trajectory |
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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