The Aesop for Children, Two Travelers and a Bear, sentence 2
One of the Men, thinking of his own safety, climbed a tree.
Who acts: Men · What happens: think, climb · To what, where: One
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Two Travelers and a Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Men), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 climbed | obl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Men | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Men | det |
| 4 | Men | Man | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 climbed | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thinking | punct |
| 6 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 Men | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 safety | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 safety | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 safety | amod |
| 10 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thinking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Men | punct |
| 12 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 climbed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | the Men not said here | of Bear's own safety | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | climb | past | the Men | One | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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