The Aesop for Children, The Ant and the Dove, sentence 3
Clinging to the straw like a shipwrecked sailor to a broken spar, the Ant floated safely to shore.
Who acts: Ant · What happens: cling, shipwreck, break, float · To what, where: shore
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), 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 | Clinging | cling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 floated | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 straw | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 straw | det |
| 4 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Clinging | obl |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 sailor | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sailor | det |
| 7 | shipwrecked | shipwreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sailor | amod |
| 8 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Clinging | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 spar | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 spar | det |
| 11 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 spar | amod |
| 12 | spar | spar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sailor | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Clinging | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Ant | det |
| 15 | Ant | Ant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 floated | nsubj |
| 16 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 16 floated | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 shore | case |
| 19 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 floated | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 floated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling | gerund | the Ant not said here | to the straw; like a shipwrecked sailor to a broken spar | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to straw=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | shipwreck | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | float | past | the Ant | shore | safely property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=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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