The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Dolphin, sentence 3
But the Dolphins took the shipwrecked people on their backs and swam with them to shore.
Who acts: Dolphins · What happens: take, shipwreck, swim · To what, where: shipwrecked people, backs, shore
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 (Dolphins), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dolphins | det |
| 3 | Dolphins | Dolphin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 6 | shipwrecked | shipwreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 backs | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 backs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 swam | cc |
| 12 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 swam | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 shore | mark |
| 16 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swam | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Dolphins | the shipwrecked people | Dolphins's backs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 2 | shipwreck | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | swim | past | the Dolphins not said here | shore | with Dolphins = dolphin | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with they=Theme |
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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