The Aesop for Children, The Boys and the Frogs, sentence 3
The stones were flying thick and fast and the Boys were enjoying themselves very much; but the poor Frogs in the pond were trembling with fear.
Who acts: stones, Boys, poor Frogs · What happens: fly, be, enjoy, tremble · To what, where: Boys
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 (stones, Boys, poor Frogs), 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 stones | det |
| 2 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thick | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thick | cop |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 thick | amod |
| 5 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fast | cc |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thick | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 enjoying | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Boys | det |
| 10 | Boys | Boy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 enjoying | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 enjoying | aux |
| 12 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 thick | conj |
| 13 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 enjoying | obj |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 enjoying | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 trembling | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 trembling | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Frogs | det |
| 19 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Frogs | amod |
| 20 | Frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 trembling | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 pond | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pond | det |
| 23 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Frogs | nmod |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 trembling | aux |
| 25 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 thick | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 fear | case |
| 27 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 trembling | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the stones | thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the stones not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | enjoy | past · progressive | the Boys | Boys = boy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | tremble | past · progressive | the poor Frogs in the pond | with fear | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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