Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 95
A PRINCE had some Monkeys trained to dance.
Who acts: PRINCE, Monkeys · What happens: have, train, dance · To what, where: Monkeys
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 (PRINCE, Monkeys), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 PRINCE | det |
| 2 | PRINCE | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 Monkeys | det |
| 5 | Monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Monkeys | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 dance | mark |
| 8 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 trained | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a PRINCE | some Monkeys | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Patient | ||||
| 2 | train | participle | some Monkeys not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | dance | to-infinitive | some Monkeys not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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