The Aesop for Children, The Ass and Its Shadow, sentence 3
The road led across a treeless plain where the Sun beat down fiercely.
Who acts: road, Sun · What happens: lead, beat down · To what, where: treeless plain
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and Its Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, Sun), 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 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 plain | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 plain | det |
| 6 | treeless | treeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plain | amod |
| 7 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 beat | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sun | det |
| 10 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 beat | nsubj |
| 11 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 plain | acl:relcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 fiercely | advmod |
| 13 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 11 beat | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the road | a treeless plain | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent across plain=Destination | ||||
| 2 | beat down | present | the Sun | fiercely property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=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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