The Aesop for Children, The Plane Tree, sentence 2
As they lay looking up among the pleasant leaves, they saw that it was a Plane Tree.
Who acts: Travellers, shade · What happens: lay, look up, see, be · To what, where: Plane 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 (Travellers, shade), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 lay | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | advcl |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 lay | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 looking | compound:prt |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 leaves | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 leaves | det |
| 8 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 leaves | amod |
| 9 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 Tree | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 Tree | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Tree | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Tree | det |
| 17 | Plane | Plane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Tree | compound |
| 18 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | Travellers = traveller | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look up | gerund | Travellers = traveller not said here | among the pleasant leaves | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent among leaf=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Travellers = traveller | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | shade | a Plane Tree | tree rules |
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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