The Aesop for Children, The Heron, sentence 5
Now a fine young Perch swam near.
Who acts: fine young Perch · What happens: swim
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Heron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine young Perch), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 swam | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Perch | det |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Perch | amod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Perch | amod |
| 5 | Perch | Perch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 swam | nsubj |
| 6 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | near | near | ADV | _ | 6 swam | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | a fine young Perch | now | near property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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