The Aesop for Children, The Oak and the Reeds, sentence 12
The Oak stood proudly and fought against the storm, while the yielding Reeds bowed low.
Who acts: Oak, yielding Reeds · What happens: stand, fight, bow
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 (Oak, yielding Reeds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Oak | det |
| 2 | Oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fought | cc |
| 6 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 storm | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 storm | det |
| 9 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bowed | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 bowed | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Reeds | det |
| 13 | yielding | yielding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Reeds | compound |
| 14 | Reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bowed | nsubj |
| 15 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 16 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bowed | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Oak | proudly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fight | past | the Oak not said here | against the storm | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bow | past | the yielding Reeds | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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