The Aesop for Children, The Gnat and the Bull, sentence 1
A Gnat flew over the meadow with much buzzing for so small a creature and settled on the tip of one of the horns of a Bull.
Who acts: Gnat · What happens: fly, settle · To what, where: meadow
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Gnat and the Bull. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gnat), 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 Gnat | det |
| 2 | Gnat | gnat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 meadow | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 meadow | det |
| 6 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 buzzing | case |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 buzzing | amod |
| 9 | buzzing | buzzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 small | case |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 small | advmod |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flew | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 creature | det |
| 14 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 small | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 settled | cc |
| 16 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 small | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 tip | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tip | det |
| 19 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 settled | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 tip | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 horns | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 horns | det |
| 24 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Bull | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Bull | det |
| 27 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 horns | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | a Gnat | the meadow | with much buzzing; for small | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over meadow=Location | |||
| 2 | settle | participle | a Gnat not said here | on the tip of one of the horns of a Bull | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on tip=Topic |
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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