The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Sea, sentence 3
"Look," said one, "a great ship rides in from distant lands, bearing rich treasures!"
Who acts: great ship · What happens: look, say, ride, bear · To what, where: one, distant lands, rich treasures · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (great ship), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 said | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rides | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 rides | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ship | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ship | amod |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rides | nsubj |
| 12 | rides | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 rides | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 lands | case |
| 15 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lands | amod |
| 16 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rides | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bearing | punct |
| 18 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 rides | advcl |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 treasures | amod |
| 20 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 bearing | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 bearing | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 rides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ride in a quote | present | a great ship | distant lands | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from land=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | bear in a quote | gerund | a great ship not said here | rich treasures | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=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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