Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 53
When he returned home after a good day’s sport, he always gave the Housedog a large share of his spoil.
Who acts: Housedog, good day · What happens: return, give, sport, share, spoil · To what, where: Housedog, spoil
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 (Housedog, good day), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gave | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 sport | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sport | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 day | case |
| 10 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 gave | advmod |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Housedog | det |
| 16 | Housedog | housedog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 share | det |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 share | amod |
| 19 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 spoil | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 spoil | nmod:poss |
| 22 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 share | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Housedog | after a good day's sport | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | Housedog | the Housedog | always property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent housedog=Recipient share=Theme | |||
| 3 | sport | a good day | nom sport «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | share | Housedog's spoil | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | spoil | Housedog | nom spoil «possession transitive»: poss=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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