The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Sea, sentence 4
The object they saw came ever nearer the shore.
Who acts: treasures, object · What happens: see, come · To what, where: object
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 (treasures, object), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 object | acl:relcl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 nearer | advmod |
| 7 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 came | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shore | det |
| 9 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nearer | nsubj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | treasures = treasure | the object not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer object=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the object | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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