The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Dolphin, sentence 18
Without more ado, he dived and left the foolish Monkey to take care of himself, while he swam off in search of some human being to save.
Who acts: answer · What happens: dive, leave, take, swim off, be · To what, where: foolish Monkey, care, search
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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 3 ado | case |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 ado | amod |
| 3 | ado | ado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dived | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ado | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dived | nsubj |
| 6 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dived | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Monkey | det |
| 10 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Monkey | amod |
| 11 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 left | advcl |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 himself | case |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 take | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 swam | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 swam | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 swam | nsubj |
| 20 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dived | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 swam | compound:prt |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 search | case |
| 23 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 swam | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 some | case |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 search | nmod |
| 26 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 save | amod |
| 27 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 save | cop |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 save | mark |
| 29 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 some | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive | past | answer | without more ado | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | answer not said here | the foolish Monkey | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | answer not said here | care | of answer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of himself=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | swim off | past | answer | search of some | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | is | gerund | save property | 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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