Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 15
A Bricklayer earnestly recommended bricks as affording the best material for an effective resistance.
Who acts: Bricklayer · What happens: recommend, afford · To what, where: bricks, best material
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 (Bricklayer), 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 | 2 Bricklayer | det |
| 2 | Bricklayer | bricklayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recommended | nsubj |
| 3 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 4 recommended | advmod |
| 4 | recommended | recommend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 recommended | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 affording | mark |
| 7 | affording | afford | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 recommended | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 material | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 material | amod |
| 10 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 affording | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 resistance | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 resistance | det |
| 13 | effective | effective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 resistance | amod |
| 14 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 affording | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recommended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recommend | past | a Bricklayer | bricks | earnestly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brick=Theme | |||
| 2 | afford | gerund | a Bricklayer not said here | the best material | for a effective resistance | 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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