Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 75
At which the Mouse said, “The great do not always prevail.
Who acts: Mouse, great · What happens: say, not prevail · 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 (Mouse, great), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 said | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Mouse | det |
| 4 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 prevail | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 prevail | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 great | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 prevail | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 prevail | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 prevail | advmod |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 prevail | advmod |
| 13 | prevail | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Mouse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not prevail in a quote | present · do-support | the great | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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