The Aesop for Children, The Hares and the Frogs, sentence 5
On the way they passed a pond where a family of Frogs was sitting among the reeds on the bank.
Who acts: Hares, family · What happens: pass, sit · To what, where: pond, way, bank
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 (Hares, family), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pond | det |
| 7 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obj |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 sitting | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 family | det |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sitting | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Frogs | case |
| 12 | Frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 family | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sitting | aux |
| 14 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 pond | acl |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 reeds | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 reeds | det |
| 17 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sitting | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 bank | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bank | det |
| 20 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sitting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Hares = hare | a pond | the way | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pond=Theme on way=Destination | |||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | a family of Frogs | the bank | among the reeds | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among reed=Location |
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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