The Aesop for Children, The Plane Tree, sentence 1
Two Travellers, walking in the noonday sun, sought the shade of a widespreading tree to rest.
Who acts: Two Travellers · What happens: walk, seek, rest, shade · To what, where: noonday sun, shade, widespreading tree
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Plane Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two Travellers), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Travellers | nummod |
| 2 | Travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sought | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 walking | punct |
| 4 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Travellers | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 7 | noonday | noonday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sun | compound |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Travellers | punct |
| 10 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shade | det |
| 12 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sought | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 15 | widespreading | widespreading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | compound |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shade | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 rest | mark |
| 18 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sought | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | Two Travellers not said here | the noonday sun | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | Two Travellers | the shade of a widespreading tree | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shade=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | Two Travellers not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shade | a widespreading tree | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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