The Aesop for Children, The Stag and His Reflection, sentence 1
A Stag, drinking from a crystal spring, saw himself mirrored in the clear water.
Who acts: Stag · What happens: drink, see, mirror · To what, where: Stag, clear water
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag and His Reflection. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stag), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Stag | det |
| 2 | Stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 drinking | punct |
| 4 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Stag | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 spring | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 spring | det |
| 7 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spring | amod |
| 8 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drinking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stag | punct |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 saw | obj |
| 12 | mirrored | mirror | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 saw | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 15 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 water | amod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mirrored | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | gerund | a Stag not said here | spring | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | a Stag | Stag | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mirror | participle | Stag not said here | the clear water | 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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