Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 82
The huntsman took no notice of the signs, but believing his word, hastened forward in the chase.
Who acts: huntsman · What happens: take, believe, hasten, notice, word · To what, where: notice, word, chase, signs
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 (huntsman), 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 huntsman | det |
| 2 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 notice | det |
| 5 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 signs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 signs | det |
| 8 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 notice | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 believing | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 believing | cc |
| 11 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 word | nmod:poss |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 believing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hastened | punct |
| 15 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 believing | parataxis |
| 16 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 15 hastened | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 chase | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chase | det |
| 19 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hastened | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the huntsman | no notice of the signs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | believe | gerund | the huntsman not said here | huntsman's word | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hasten | participle | the chase | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chase=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | notice | the signs | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | word | huntsman | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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