Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 16
A Carpenter, with equal enthusiasm, proposed timber as a preferable method of defense.
What happens: propose
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 | 2 Carpenter | det |
| 2 | Carpenter | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 enthusiasm | punct |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 enthusiasm | case |
| 5 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 enthusiasm | amod |
| 6 | enthusiasm | enthusiasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Carpenter | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 timber | punct |
| 8 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 timber | amod |
| 9 | timber | timber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Carpenter | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 method | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 method | det |
| 12 | preferable | preferable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 method | amod |
| 13 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 timber | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 defense | case |
| 15 | defense | defense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 method | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Carpenter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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