The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Dolphin, sentence 5

So when one of the Dolphins saw a Monkey struggling in the water, he thought it was a man, and made the Monkey climb up on his back.

Who acts: one, Monkey, Athens, water · What happens: see, struggle, think, be, make, climb up · To what, where: Monkey, water, man, back · 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 (one, Monkey, Athens, water), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 saw	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 saw	advmod
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 saw	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Dolphins	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Dolphins	det
6	Dolphins	Dolphin	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Monkey	det
9	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj
10	struggling	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 Monkey	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 struggling	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 man	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 man	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thought	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Monkey	det
25	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obj
26	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 made	xcomp
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 climb	compound:prt
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 back	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 back	nmod:poss
30	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 climb	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	one of the Dolphins	a Monkey		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monkey=Stimulus
2	struggle	gerund	a Monkey not said here		the water	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	Athens			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	water	a man		tree rules
5	make	past	one of the Dolphins not said here	the Monkey		tree rules
6	climb up	infinitive	the Monkey not said here		Athens's back	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory

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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