Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 64
The quarrel proceeded from words to blows, and while the men fought, the Ass galloped off.
Who acts: quarrel, men, Ass · What happens: proceed, fight, gallop off · To what, where: words
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 (quarrel, men, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 quarrel | det |
| 2 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proceeded | nsubj |
| 3 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 proceeded | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 blows | case |
| 7 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 proceeded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 galloped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 galloped | cc |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 fought | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 men | det |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fought | nsubj |
| 13 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 galloped | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fought | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Ass | det |
| 16 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 galloped | nsubj |
| 17 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 proceeded | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 galloped | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | past | the quarrel | words | to blows | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | fight | past | the men | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gallop off | past | the Ass | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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