The Aesop for Children, The Dogs and the Hides, sentence 1
Some hungry Dogs saw a number of hides at the bottom of a stream where the Tanner had put them to soak.
Who acts: hungry Dogs · What happens: see, put, soak · To what, where: number, Tanner
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dogs and the Hides. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hungry Dogs), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 Dogs | det |
| 2 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Dogs | amod |
| 3 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 number | det |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hides | case |
| 8 | hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 number | nmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 bottom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bottom | det |
| 11 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hides | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 stream | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stream | det |
| 14 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bottom | nmod |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 put | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tanner | det |
| 17 | Tanner | Tanner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 put | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 put | aux |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stream | acl:relcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 soak | mark |
| 22 | soak | soak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 put | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | some hungry Dogs | a number of hides at the bottom of a stream | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | put | past · perfect · passive | the Tanner | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset they=Goal | |||||
| 3 | soak | to-infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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