The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Cat, sentence 4

One day they were sitting by the fire, watching some chestnuts roasting on the hearth.

Who acts: Cat, chestnuts · What happens: sit, watch, roast · To what, where: chestnuts

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat, chestnuts), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sitting	aux
5	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 watching	punct
10	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sitting	advcl
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 chestnuts	det
12	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 watching	obj
13	roasting	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 chestnuts	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 hearth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hearth	det
16	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 roasting	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Cat		day	by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
2	watch	gerund	Cat not said here	some chestnuts			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chestnut=Theme
3	roast	gerund	some chestnuts not said here			on the hearth	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on hearth=Instrument

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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