The Aesop for Children, The Hares and the Frogs, sentence 6
In an instant the startled Frogs were seeking safety in the mud.
Who acts: startled Frogs · What happens: startle, seek, be · To what, where: seeking safety, instant
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 (startled Frogs), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 safety | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Frogs | det |
| 5 | startled | startle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Frogs | amod |
| 6 | Frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 safety | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 safety | cop |
| 8 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 safety | amod |
| 9 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 mud | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mud | det |
| 12 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 safety | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 safety | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | startle | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | seek | gerund | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | the startled Frogs | seeking safety | a instant | in the mud | tree rules |
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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