The Aesop for Children, The Porcupine and the Snakes, sentence 2
At last he found a little sheltered cave, where lived a family of Snakes.
Who acts: Porcupine · What happens: find, shelter, live · To what, where: little sheltered cave, last, family
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Porcupine and the Snakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Porcupine), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cave | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cave | amod |
| 7 | sheltered | shelter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cave | amod |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 lived | advmod |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cave | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 family | det |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Snakes | case |
| 15 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 family | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Porcupine | a little sheltered cave | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent cave=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 2 | shelter | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | live | past | a family of Snakes | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme family=Location |
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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