Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 76
There are times when the small and lowly are the strongest to do mischief.”
Who acts: small · What happens: be, do · To what, where: mischief
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 (small), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 strongest | cop |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 strongest | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 small | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 strongest | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lowly | cc |
| 8 | lowly | lowly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 small | conj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 strongest | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 strongest | det |
| 11 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 strongest | csubj |
| 14 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 strongest | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 strongest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the small | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | mischief | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality |
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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