Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 132
A CERTAIN rich man bought in the market a Goose and a Swan.
What happens: buy · To what, where: CERTAIN rich man, market
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 2 | CERTAIN | certain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 man | compound |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 man | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 market | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 market | det |
| 8 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bought | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Goose | det |
| 10 | Goose | Goose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 market | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Swan | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Swan | det |
| 13 | Swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Goose | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | participle | a CERTAIN rich man not said here | the market | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how 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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