The Aesop for Children, The Ants and the Grasshopper, sentence 8
And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.
Who acts: Ants · What happens: turn, go on, work · To what, where: backs
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ants and the Grasshopper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ants), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 turned | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 backs | nmod:poss |
| 5 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Grasshopper | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Grasshopper | det |
| 8 | Grasshopper | Grasshopper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 went | compound:prt |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 work | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 work | nmod:poss |
| 14 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Ants = ant | Ants's backs | on the Grasshopper | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme | |||
| 2 | go on | past | Ants = ant not said here | with Ants's work | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | work | Ants = ant | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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