Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 100
To which the Lion jeeringly replied, “It was righteously yours, eh?
Who acts: Lion, distance · What happens: reply, be · To what, where: yours · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, distance), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 replied | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lion | det |
| 4 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | jeeringly | jeeringly | ADV | _ | 6 replied | advmod |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 yours | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 yours | punct |
| 9 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 yours | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 yours | cop |
| 11 | righteously | righteously | ADV | _ | 12 yours | advmod |
| 12 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eh | punct |
| 14 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 12 yours | discourse |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | the Lion | jeeringly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to which=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | distance | yours | righteously property | tree rules |
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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