The Aesop for Children, The Hares and the Frogs, sentence 2
The least shadow, sends them scurrying in fright to a hiding place.
Who acts: least shadow · What happens: send, scurry · To what, where: Hares, fright
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hares and the Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (least shadow), 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 | 3 shadow | det |
| 2 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 shadow | amod |
| 3 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sends | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 shadow | punct |
| 5 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sends | obj |
| 7 | scurrying | scurry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sends | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fright | case |
| 9 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 scurrying | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 12 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | compound |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 scurrying | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | the least shadow | Hares = hare | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scurry | gerund | the least shadow not said here | fright | to a hiding place | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=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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