Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 17
The Hunter, turning very pale and chattering with his teeth from fear, replied, “No, thank you.
Who acts: Hunter · What happens: turn, chatter, reply, thank · To what, where: fear, Hunter, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hunter), 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 Hunter | det |
| 2 | Hunter | Hunter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 turning | punct |
| 4 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Hunter | acl |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 pale | advmod |
| 6 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 turning | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 chattering | cc |
| 8 | chattering | chatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 turning | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 teeth | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chattering | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 fear | case |
| 13 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chattering | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thank | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 thank | punct |
| 18 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 thank | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thank | punct |
| 20 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 replied | parataxis |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 thank | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | the Hunter not said here | pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chatter | gerund | the Hunter not said here | fear | with Lion's teeth | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tooth=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | participle · passive | the Hunter | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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