Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 89
SOME THIEVES broke into a house and found nothing but a Cock, whom they stole, and got off as fast as they could.
Who acts: SOME THIEVES, Thieves · What happens: break, find, steal, get off · To what, where: house, nothing
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 (SOME THIEVES, Thieves), 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 | SOME | some | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 THIEVES | amod |
| 2 | THIEVES | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 broke | conj |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 found | obj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 Cock | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Cock | det |
| 12 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stole | punct |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 stole | obj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stole | nsubj |
| 16 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 nothing | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 got | cc |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 broke | parataxis |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 got | compound:prt |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 fast | advmod |
| 22 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 got | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 could | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 could | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 fast | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | SOME THIEVES | into a house result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into house=Result | ||||
| 2 | find | past | SOME THIEVES not said here | nothing | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | steal | past | Thieves = thief | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whom=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get off | past | fast property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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