The Aesop for Children, The Boys and the Frogs, sentence 1
Some Boys were playing one day at the edge of a pond in which lived a family of Frogs.
Who acts: Boys, pond · What happens: play, live · To what, where: edge, family
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Boys and the Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boys, pond), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 Boys | det |
| 2 | Boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 playing | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 playing | aux |
| 4 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 playing | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 edge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 edge | det |
| 9 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 playing | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 pond | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pond | det |
| 12 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 edge | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pond | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 family | det |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Frogs | case |
| 19 | Frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 family | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 playing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · progressive | some Boys | the edge of a pond | day | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | live | past | a pond | a family of Frogs | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme family=Location |
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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