The Aesop for Children, The Gnat and the Bull, sentence 2
After he had rested a short time, he made ready to fly away.
Who acts: Gnat · What happens: rest, make, fly away
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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 rested | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rested | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rested | aux |
| 4 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 made | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rested | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rested | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 made | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fly | mark |
| 13 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ready | xcomp |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 fly | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past · perfect | Gnat | time | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Gnat | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fly away | to-infinitive | Gnat not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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