The Aesop for Children, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 2
So they decided to leave the farmyard and to set out into the world along the road that led to the woods.
Who acts: Dog, road · What happens: decide, leave, set out, lead · To what, where: farmyard, world
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog, road), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 decided | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 decided | nsubj |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 leave | mark |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decided | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 farmyard | det |
| 7 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 set | mark |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 leave | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 15 | along | along | ADP | _ | 17 road | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 road | det |
| 17 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 led | nsubj |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 road | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 woods | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 woods | det |
| 22 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 led | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | Dog | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | Dog not said here | the farmyard | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmyard=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set out | to-infinitive | Dog not said here | the world | along the road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location along road=Destination | |||
| 4 | lead | past | the road | to the woods | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to wood=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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