The Aesop for Children, The Dog in the Manger, sentence 1
A Dog asleep in a manger filled with hay, was awakened by the Cattle, which came in tired and hungry from working in the field.
Who acts: Cattle · What happens: fill, awaken, come in, work · To what, where: manger, Dog
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog in the Manger. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cattle), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Dog | det |
| 2 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 awakened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Dog | amod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 manger | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 manger | det |
| 6 | manger | manger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asleep | obl |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 manger | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hay | case |
| 9 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dog | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 awakened | aux:pass |
| 12 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Cattle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Cattle | det |
| 15 | Cattle | Cattle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 awakened | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Cattle | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 came | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hungry | cc |
| 22 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tired | conj |
| 23 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 24 working | mark |
| 24 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 hungry | advcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 field | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 field | det |
| 27 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 working | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | a manger not said here | with hay | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with hay=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | awaken | past · passive | the Cattle | a Dog | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come in | past | the Cattle | tired property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | work | gerund | the Cattle not said here | in the field | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in field=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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