The Aesop for Children, The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox, sentence 3
The two comrades traveled along in the very best of spirits and without meeting any adventure to speak of.
What happens: travel, meet, speak · To what, where: two comrades, adventure · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 comrades | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 comrades | nummod |
| 3 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | traveled | travel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 comrades | acl |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 4 traveled | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 best | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 best | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 best | advmod |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 traveled | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 spirits | case |
| 11 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 best | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 meeting | cc |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 14 meeting | mark |
| 14 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 best | conj |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 adventure | det |
| 16 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meeting | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 speak | mark |
| 18 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 adventure | acl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 speak | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comrades | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | participle | the two comrades not said here | along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | gerund | any adventure | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | any adventure not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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