The Aesop for Children, The Two Goats, sentence 1
Two Goats, frisking gayly on the rocky steeps of a mountain valley, chanced to meet, one on each side of a deep chasm through which poured a mighty mountain torrent.
Who acts: Two Goats, deep chasm · What happens: frisk, chance, meet, pour · To what, where: rocky steeps, Two Goats, mighty mountain torrent
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Goats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two Goats, deep chasm), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Goats | nummod |
| 2 | Goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 frisking | punct |
| 4 | frisking | frisk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Goats | acl |
| 5 | gayly | gayly | ADV | _ | 4 frisking | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 steeps | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 steeps | det |
| 8 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 steeps | amod |
| 9 | steeps | steep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 frisking | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 valley | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 valley | det |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 valley | compound |
| 13 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 steeps | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 chanced | punct |
| 15 | chanced | chance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Goats | acl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 meet | mark |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 chanced | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Goats | appos |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 side | det |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 chasm | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 chasm | det |
| 25 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 chasm | amod |
| 26 | chasm | chasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 side | nmod |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 poured | nsubj |
| 29 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 chasm | acl:relcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 torrent | det |
| 31 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 torrent | amod |
| 32 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 torrent | compound |
| 33 | torrent | torrent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 poured | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Goats | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frisk | gerund | Two Goats not said here | the rocky steeps of a mountain valley | gayly property | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | chance | participle | Two Goats not said here | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | pour | past | a deep chasm | a mighty mountain torrent | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torrent=Patient |
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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