The Aesop for Children, The Ant and the Dove, sentence 4
Soon after, the Ant saw a man getting ready to kill the Dove with a stone.
Who acts: Ant, man · What happens: see, get, kill · To what, where: man, Dove
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, man), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 1 Soon | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soon | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ant | det |
| 5 | Ant | Ant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 man | acl |
| 10 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 getting | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 kill | mark |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ready | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Dove | det |
| 14 | Dove | Dove | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 kill | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 stone | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stone | det |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kill | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Ant | a man | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | get | gerund | a man not said here | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | a man not said here | the Dove | with a stone | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent dove=Patient with stone=Instrument |
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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