The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Dolphin, sentence 1
It happened once upon a time that a certain Greek ship bound for Athens was wrecked off the coast close to Piraeus, the port of Athens.
Who acts: It · What happens: happen, wreck · To what, where: certain Greek ship bound
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Dolphin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 happened | advmod |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 wrecked | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bound | det |
| 9 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bound | amod |
| 10 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bound | amod |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bound | compound |
| 12 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wrecked | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Athens | case |
| 14 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bound | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wrecked | aux:pass |
| 16 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 time | acl:relcl |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 coast | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 coast | det |
| 19 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wrecked | obl |
| 20 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 coast | amod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Piraeus | case |
| 22 | Piraeus | Piraeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 close | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 port | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 port | det |
| 25 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Piraeus | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Athens | case |
| 27 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 port | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | time | once property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | wreck | past · passive | a certain Greek ship bound for Athens | off the coast | 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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