Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 20
AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous wooden Image, to be placed in one of its Temples.
Who acts: AN ASS · What happens: carry, place · To what, where: famous wooden Image, streets
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 (AN ASS), 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 | AN | an | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ASS | amod |
| 2 | ASS | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 carried | advmod |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 streets | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 streets | det |
| 7 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carried | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 city | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 streets | nmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Image | det |
| 12 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Image | amod |
| 13 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Image | amod |
| 14 | Image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 placed | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 placed | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 placed | aux:pass |
| 18 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 carried | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 placed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Temples | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 Temples | nmod:poss |
| 23 | Temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | AN ASS | a famous wooden Image | the streets of a city | once property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Theme | ||
| 2 | place | to-infinitive · passive | AN ASS not said here | in one of Ass's Temples | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in one=Destination |
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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