The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Dolphin, sentence 7
The Monkey sat up, grave and dignified, on the Dolphin's back.
Who acts: Monkey · What happens: sit up, dignify · To what, where: grave, back
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 (Monkey), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Monkey | det |
| 2 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grave | punct |
| 6 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dignified | cc |
| 8 | dignified | dignify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 back | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Dolphin | det |
| 12 | Dolphin | Dolphin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 back | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Dolphin | case |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dignified | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit up | past | the Monkey | grave | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dignify | past | the Monkey not said here | the Dolphin's back | 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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