The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Sea, sentence 10
Both Travelers rushed to the beach, but there they found nothing but a water-soaked log.
Who acts: Travelers · What happens: rush, find, soak · To what, where: nothing
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 (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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 Travelers | det |
| 2 | Travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 beach | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beach | det |
| 6 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 found | expl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rushed | conj |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 log | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 log | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 soaked | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 water | punct |
| 17 | soaked | soak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 log | amod |
| 18 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nothing | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | both Travelers | to the beach result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to beach=Result | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Travelers = traveler | nothing | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 3 | soak | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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