Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 128
The Monkey, who is the most imitative of animals, descended from the treetop and endeavored to do as they had done.
Who acts: Monkey · What happens: be, descend, endeavor, do · To what, where: animals, treetop
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 (Monkey), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Monkey | det |
| 2 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 imitative | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 imitative | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 imitative | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 imitative | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 imitative | advmod |
| 8 | imitative | imitative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Monkey | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 animals | case |
| 10 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 imitative | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 descended | punct |
| 12 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 animals | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 treetop | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 treetop | det |
| 15 | treetop | treetop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 descended | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 endeavored | cc |
| 17 | endeavored | endeavor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 descended | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 endeavored | xcomp |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 done | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 done | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 do | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Monkey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Monkey | of animals; imitative property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | descend | participle | animals not said here | the treetop | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from treetop=Location | ||||
| 3 | endeavor | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect | Monkey | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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