Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 99
Pulling off their masks and tearing their robes, they fought with one another for the nuts.
Who acts: Monkeys · What happens: pull off, tear, fight · To what, where: masks, robes
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 (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 | Pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 fought | advcl |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Pulling | compound:prt |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 masks | nmod:poss |
| 4 | masks | mask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pulling | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tearing | cc |
| 6 | tearing | tear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Pulling | conj |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 robes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tearing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pulling | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fought | nsubj |
| 11 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 another | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 another | nummod |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 fought | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 nuts | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 nuts | det |
| 17 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fought | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull off | gerund | Monkeys = monkey not said here | Monkeys's masks | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mask=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tear | gerund | Monkeys = monkey not said here | Monkeys's robes | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location robe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fight | past | Monkeys = monkey | with another; for the nuts | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with another=Co-Agent |
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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