The Aesop for Children, The Frogs and the Ox, sentence 1

An Ox came down to a reedy pool to drink.

Who acts: Ox · What happens: come down, drink · To what, where: reedy pool

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs and the Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ox), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Ox	det
2	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 pool	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pool	det
7	reedy	reedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pool	amod
8	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 drink	mark
10	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 pool	acl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	a Ox			a reedy pool		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pool=Initial_Location
2	drink	to-infinitive	a Ox not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «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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