The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Sea, sentence 9
"It is a chest of gold lost from some wreck," they cried.
Who acts: nearer · What happens: be, lose, cry · To what, where: chest, gold, wreck · 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 (nearer), 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 | _ | 5 chest | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chest | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chest | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chest | det |
| 5 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chest | nmod |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 gold | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 wreck | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 wreck | det |
| 11 | wreck | wreck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chest | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | nearer = near | a chest | of gold | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lose in a quote | participle | gold not said here | some wreck | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent from wreck=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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