The Aesop for Children, The Hare and the Tortoise, sentence 8
The Tortoise meanwhile kept going slowly but steadily, and, after a time, passed the place where the Hare was sleeping.
Who acts: Tortoise, Hare · What happens: keep, go, pass, sleep · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tortoise, Hare), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tortoise | det |
| 2 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 kept | advmod |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 5 going | advmod |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 steadily | cc |
| 8 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 6 slowly | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 passed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 passed | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 passed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 16 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 passed | obj |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 sleeping | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Hare | det |
| 21 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sleeping | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sleeping | aux |
| 23 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 place | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the Tortoise | meanwhile property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | the Tortoise not said here | slowly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | past | the Tortoise not said here | the place | time | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | sleep | past · progressive | the Hare | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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