The Aesop for Children, A Raven and a Swan, sentence 5
And as the water weeds he ate did not agree with him, he got thinner and thinner, and at last he died.
Who acts: water · What happens: weed, eat, not agree, get, die · To what, where: last
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, A Raven and a Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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 | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 weeds | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weeds | nsubj |
| 5 | weeds | weed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ate | nsubj |
| 7 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 weeds | ccomp |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 agree | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 agree | advmod |
| 10 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ate | xcomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 agree | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 weeds | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | thinner | thin | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 got | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thinner | cc |
| 18 | thinner | thin | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 thinner | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 died | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 died | cc |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 last | case |
| 22 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 died | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 died | nsubj |
| 24 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weed | present | the water | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | eat | past | water | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not agree speech: agree | past · do-support | water not said here | with water | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | past | water | thin property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | die | past | water | last | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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