Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 1190
THE TRAVELLER AND FORTUNE A Traveller, exhausted with fatigue after a long journey, sank down at the very brink of a deep well and presently fell asleep.
Who acts: Traveller · What happens: exhaust, sink down, fall · To what, where: Traveller, very brink
This is a sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Traveller), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 TRAVELLER | det |
| 2 | TRAVELLER | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sank | parataxis |
| 3 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 FORTUNE | cc |
| 4 | FORTUNE | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 TRAVELLER | conj |
| 5 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Traveller | det |
| 6 | Traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sank | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 exhausted | punct |
| 8 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Traveller | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 fatigue | case |
| 10 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exhausted | obl |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 journey | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 journey | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 journey | amod |
| 14 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exhausted | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 exhausted | punct |
| 16 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 sank | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 brink | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 brink | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 brink | amod |
| 21 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sank | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 well | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 well | det |
| 24 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 well | amod |
| 25 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brink | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fell | cc |
| 27 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 28 fell | advmod |
| 28 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sank | conj |
| 29 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fell | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhaust | participle | a Traveller not said here | after a long journey | with fatigue | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | sink down | past | a Traveller | the very brink of a deep well | down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | fall | past | a Traveller not said here | asleep, presently property | vn occur-48.3 «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: «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», Project Gutenberg book 11339 (public domain in the USA). Annotation: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (mova-tales-silver-en.conllu), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence gutenberg:pg11339:1190.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.3.
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