The Aesop for Children, The Boys and the Frogs, sentence 2

The Boys amused themselves by throwing stones into the pond so as to make them skip on top of the water.

Who acts: Boys · What happens: amuse, throw, make, skip · To what, where: Boys, stones, pond, top

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), 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 Boys	det
2	Boys	Boy	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 amused	nsubj
3	amused	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 amused	obj
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 throwing	mark
6	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 amused	advcl
7	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 throwing	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 pond	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pond	det
10	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throwing	obl
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 make	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 make	mark
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 throwing	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 make	obj
16	skip	skip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 make	xcomp
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 top	case
18	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 skip	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 top	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 amused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	amuse	past	the Boys	Boys = boy			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer
2	throw	gerund	the Boys not said here	stones		into the pond result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer stone=Theme into pond=Result
3	make	to-infinitive	the Boys not said here	Boys = boy			tree rules
4	skip	infinitive	Boys = boy not said here		top of the water		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Trajectory

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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