Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 57
Why, you two fellows are better able to carry the poor beast than he you.”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: poor beast
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 (you), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 able | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 able | nsubj |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 fellows | nummod |
| 5 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 you | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | cop |
| 7 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 able | advmod |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 carry | mark |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beast | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beast | amod |
| 13 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carry | obj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 you | nsubj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 carry | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | able, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive | you not said here | the poor beast | than you | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=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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