The Aesop for Children, The Oak and the Reeds, sentence 3
But the Reeds bowed low in the wind and sang a sad and mournful song.
Who acts: Reeds · What happens: bow, sing · To what, where: wind, sad song
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 bowed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Reeds | det |
| 3 | Reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bowed | nsubj |
| 4 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bowed | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 wind | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wind | det |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bowed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sang | cc |
| 10 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bowed | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 song | det |
| 12 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 song | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mournful | cc |
| 14 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sad | conj |
| 15 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sang | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the Reeds | the wind | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wind=Location | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | the Reeds not said here | a sad song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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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