The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Sea, sentence 6
That is some fisherman's skiff, with the day's catch of savoury fish."
Who acts: That · What happens: be · To what, where: skiff
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 (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 skiff | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 skiff | cop |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 fisherman | det |
| 4 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skiff | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 fisherman | case |
| 6 | skiff | skiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 catch | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 catch | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 catch | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 day | case |
| 12 | catch | catch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skiff | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fish | case |
| 14 | savoury | savoury | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fish | amod |
| 15 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 catch | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 skiff | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 skiff | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | some fisherman's skiff | 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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