The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Purse, sentence 1
Two men were traveling in company along the road when one of them picked up a well-filled purse.
Who acts: Two men, one · What happens: travel, pick up, fill · To what, where: company, filled purse
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Travelers and the Purse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two men, one), 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 men | nummod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 traveling | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 traveling | aux |
| 4 | traveling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 company | case |
| 6 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 traveling | obl |
| 7 | along | along | ADP | _ | 9 road | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 traveling | obl |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 picked | mark |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 picked | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 one | nmod |
| 14 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 traveling | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 picked | compound:prt |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 purse | det |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 filled | advmod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 well | punct |
| 19 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 purse | amod |
| 20 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 picked | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 traveling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past · progressive | Two men | company | along the road | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in company=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | pick up | past | one of men | a filled purse | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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