The Aesop for Children, The Two Goats, sentence 9
Neither would give way, and so they both fell, to be swept away by the roaring torrent below.
Who acts: Goats, roaring torrent · What happens: give, fall, sweep away · To what, where: way
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 (Goats, roaring torrent), 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 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 3 give | advmod |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 swept | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 swept | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 swept | aux:pass |
| 14 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fell | advcl |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 swept | advmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 torrent | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 torrent | det |
| 18 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 torrent | compound |
| 19 | torrent | torrent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swept | obl |
| 20 | below | below | ADV | _ | 19 torrent | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | would | way | neither property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Goats = goat | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sweep away | to-infinitive · passive | the roaring torrent | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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