The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Dolphin, sentence 17
This answer took the Dolphin by surprise, and, turning his head, he now saw what it was he was carrying.
Who acts: answer · What happens: take, turn, see, carry · To what, where: Dolphin, head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (answer), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 answer | det |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Dolphin | det |
| 5 | Dolphin | Dolphin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 surprise | case |
| 7 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turning | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turning | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turning | punct |
| 11 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turning | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 saw | advmod |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 carrying | nsubj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 carrying | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 carrying | aux |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 carrying | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 carrying | aux |
| 23 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 saw | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | this answer | the Dolphin | by surprise | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dolphin=Destination | |||
| 2 | turn | gerund | this answer not said here | answer's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | answer | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | carry | past · progressive | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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