Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 133
The Leopard exhibited one by one the various spots which decorated his skin.
Who acts: Leopard, various spots · What happens: exhibit, decorate · To what, where: one, skin
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 (Leopard, various spots), 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 Leopard | det |
| 2 | Leopard | Leopard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 exhibited | nsubj |
| 3 | exhibited | exhibit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 exhibited | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 one | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spots | det |
| 8 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spots | amod |
| 9 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 decorated | nsubj |
| 11 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spots | acl:relcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 skin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 decorated | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 exhibited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhibit | past | the Leopard | one | by one the various spots | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 2 | decorate | past | the various spots | Leopard's skin | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=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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