Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 102
A FARMER, who bore a grudge against a Fox for robbing his poultry yard, caught him at last, and being determined to take an ample revenge, tied some rope well soaked in oil to his tail, and set it on fire.
Who acts: FARMER, ample revenge · What happens: bear, rob, catch, be, take, tie · To what, where: grudge, poultry yard, Fox, last, ample revenge, rope
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FARMER, ample revenge), 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 FARMER | det |
| 2 | FARMER | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bore | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 bore | nsubj |
| 5 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 FARMER | acl:relcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 grudge | det |
| 7 | grudge | grudge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bore | obj |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 Fox | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Fox | det |
| 10 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bore | obl |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 robbing | mark |
| 12 | robbing | rob | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 bore | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 yard | nmod:poss |
| 14 | poultry | poultry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 yard | compound |
| 15 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 robbing | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 FARMER | punct |
| 17 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 caught | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 last | case |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 caught | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 determined | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 determined | cc |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 determined | cop |
| 24 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 caught | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 take | mark |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 determined | xcomp |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 revenge | det |
| 28 | ample | ample | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 revenge | amod |
| 29 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 take | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 tied | punct |
| 31 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 revenge | acl |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 rope | det |
| 33 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tied | obj |
| 34 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 soaked | advmod |
| 35 | soaked | soak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 rope | acl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 oil | case |
| 37 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 soaked | obl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 tail | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 tail | nmod:poss |
| 40 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 soaked | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 set | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 set | cc |
| 43 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 take | conj |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 set | obj |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 fire | case |
| 46 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 set | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | a FARMER | a grudge | against a Fox | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grudge=Patient | |||
| 2 | rob | gerund | a FARMER not said here | Fox's poultry yard | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yard=Source | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | a FARMER | Fox | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 4 | is | gerund | a FARMER not said here | determined property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | a FARMER not said here | a ample revenge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tie | participle | a ample revenge not said here | some rope | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient | ||||
| 7 | soak | participle | some rope not said here | to Fox's tail; in oil; well property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in oil=Theme | ||||
| 8 | set | infinitive | a FARMER not said here | rope | fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=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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