Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 67
For this purpose she jumped upon a peg, and suspending herself from it, pretended to be dead.
Who acts: HOUSE · What happens: jump, suspend, pretend, be · To what, where: peg, HOUSE
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 (HOUSE), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 purpose | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 purpose | det |
| 3 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jumped | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 jumped | nsubj |
| 5 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 peg | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 peg | det |
| 8 | peg | peg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jumped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 suspending | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 suspending | cc |
| 11 | suspending | suspend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 jumped | advcl |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 suspending | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 suspending | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pretended | punct |
| 16 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 jumped | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 dead | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 dead | cop |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pretended | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | HOUSE | a peg | for this purpose | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon peg=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | suspend | gerund | HOUSE not said here | HOUSE | peg | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent herself=Theme from it=Source | |||
| 3 | pretend | past | HOUSE not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | HOUSE not said here | dead property | tree rules |
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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