The Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun, sentence 2
While they were disputing with much heat and bluster, a Traveler passed along the road wrapped in a cloak.
Who acts: Wind · What happens: dispute, pass, wrap · To what, where: Traveler, road, cloak
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wind), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 disputing | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 disputing | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disputing | aux |
| 4 | disputing | dispute | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 heat | case |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 heat | amod |
| 7 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 disputing | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bluster | cc |
| 9 | bluster | bluster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heat | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Traveler | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Traveler | det |
| 12 | Traveler | traveler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heat | conj |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Traveler | acl |
| 14 | along | along | ADP | _ | 16 road | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 passed | obl |
| 17 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 road | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cloak | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cloak | det |
| 20 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wrapped | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 disputing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dispute | past · progressive | Wind | with much heat and bluster and a Traveler | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with heat=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | pass | participle | a Traveler not said here | the road | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along road=Location | ||||
| 3 | wrap | participle | the road not said here | a cloak | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloak=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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