The Aesop for Children, The Heron, sentence 8

As the sun rose, the fish left the shallow water near the shore and swam below into the cool depths toward the middle.

Who acts: sun, fish · What happens: rise, leave, swim · To what, where: shallow water, shore, cool depths

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 (sun, fish), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 rose	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	nsubj
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
10	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obj
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 shore	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shore	det
14	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 swam	cc
16	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	conj
17	below	below	ADV	_	16 swam	advmod
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 depths	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 depths	det
20	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 depths	amod
21	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 swam	obl
22	toward	toward	ADP	_	24 middle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 middle	det
24	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 depths	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the sun				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	past	the fish	the shallow water	the shore		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme near shore=Location
3	swim	past	the fish not said here		the cool depths toward the middle	below property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into depth=Destination

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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