Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 79
The Woodcutter advised him to take shelter in his own hut, so the Fox crept in and hid himself in a corner.
Who acts: Woodcutter, Hound, Fox · What happens: advise, take, creep in, hide · To what, where: Hound, shelter, own hut, Woodcutter, corner
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 (Woodcutter, Hound, Fox), 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 Woodcutter | det |
| 2 | Woodcutter | Woodcutter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 advised | nsubj |
| 3 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 advised | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 advised | xcomp |
| 7 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hut | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hut | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hut | amod |
| 11 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crept | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 crept | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fox | det |
| 15 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 crept | nsubj |
| 16 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 advised | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 16 crept | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hid | cc |
| 19 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 crept | conj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 hid | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 corner | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 corner | det |
| 23 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hid | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 advised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past | the Woodcutter | Hound | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hound not said here | shelter | Woodcutter's own hut | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Value in hut=Location | |||
| 3 | creep in | past | the Fox | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hide | past | the Fox not said here | Woodcutter | a corner | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in corner=Location |
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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