The Aesop for Children, The Oak and the Reeds, sentence 1
A Giant Oak stood near a brook in which grew some slender Reeds.
Who acts: Giant Oak, brook · What happens: stand, grow · To what, where: brook, slender Reeds
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Oak and the Reeds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant Oak, brook), 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 | 3 Oak | det |
| 2 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Oak | amod |
| 3 | Oak | Oak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 brook | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 brook | det |
| 7 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brook | acl:relcl |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 Reeds | det |
| 12 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Reeds | amod |
| 13 | Reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grew | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a Giant Oak | a brook | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near brook=Location | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | a brook | some slender Reeds | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location reed=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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