The Aesop for Children, The Ant and the Dove, sentence 2
The Ant struggled in vain to reach the bank, and in pity, the Dove dropped a blade of straw close beside it.
Who acts: Ant, Dove · What happens: struggle, reach, drop · To what, where: vain, bank, blade, pity
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 (Ant, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ant | det |
| 2 | Ant | Ant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 struggled | nsubj |
| 3 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 vain | case |
| 5 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 struggled | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 reach | mark |
| 7 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 struggled | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bank | det |
| 9 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reach | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dropped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dropped | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pity | case |
| 13 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dropped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pity | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Dove | det |
| 16 | Dove | Dove | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 dropped | nsubj |
| 17 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 struggled | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 blade | det |
| 19 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dropped | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 straw | case |
| 21 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blade | nmod |
| 22 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dropped | xcomp |
| 23 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 close | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struggled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | past | the Ant | vain | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reach | to-infinitive | the Ant not said here | the bank | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drop | past | the Dove | a blade of straw | pity | close property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blade=Theme in pity=Destination |
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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