The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Sea, sentence 1
Two Travelers were walking along the seashore.
Who acts: Two Travelers · What happens: walk · To what, where: seashore
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Travelers and the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two Travelers), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Travelers | nummod |
| 2 | Travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walking | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walking | aux |
| 4 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 seashore | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seashore | det |
| 7 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walking | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | Two Travelers | the seashore | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along seashore=Trajectory |
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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