The Aesop for Children, The Two Goats, sentence 2
The trunk of a fallen tree formed the only means of crossing the chasm, and on this not even two squirrels could have passed each other in safety.
Who acts: trunk, only · What happens: fall, form, mean, cross, pass · To what, where: chasm, each, safety
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 (trunk, only), 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 trunk | det |
| 2 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 formed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 tree | amod |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trunk | nmod |
| 7 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 only | det |
| 9 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 means | nsubj |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 formed | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 crossing | mark |
| 12 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 means | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chasm | det |
| 14 | chasm | chasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crossing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 passed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 passed | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 squirrels | case |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 squirrels | nsubj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 squirrels | advmod |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 squirrels | advmod |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 squirrels | nummod |
| 22 | squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 passed | obl |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 passed | aux |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 passed | aux |
| 25 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 formed | conj |
| 26 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 25 passed | obj |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 each | fixed |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 safety | case |
| 29 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 passed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | form | past | the trunk of a fallen tree | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | the only | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cross | gerund | the only not said here | the chasm | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chasm=Patient | ||||
| 5 | pass | could · perfect | the trunk of a fallen tree not said here | each | safety | on two squirrels | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent each=Theme on squirrel=Destination |
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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