The Aesop for Children, The Ant and the Dove, sentence 1
A Dove saw an Ant fall into a brook.
Who acts: Dove · What happens: see · To what, where: Ant fall, brook
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ant and the Dove. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dove), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Dove | det |
| 2 | Dove | Dove | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fall | det |
| 5 | Ant | ant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fall | amod |
| 6 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 brook | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 brook | det |
| 9 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | a Dove | a Ant fall | a brook | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fall=Stimulus |
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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