The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Grasshoppers, sentence 1
One day as an Ass was walking in the pasture, he found some Grasshoppers chirping merrily in a grassy corner of the field.
Who acts: Ass, Grasshoppers · What happens: walk, find, chirp · To what, where: One day, pasture, Grasshoppers, grassy corner
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Grasshoppers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass, Grasshoppers), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 walking | mark |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Ass | det |
| 5 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walking | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 walking | aux |
| 7 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pasture | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pasture | det |
| 10 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 Grasshoppers | det |
| 15 | Grasshoppers | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 found | obj |
| 16 | chirping | chirp | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 Grasshoppers | acl |
| 17 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 16 chirping | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 corner | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 corner | det |
| 20 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 corner | amod |
| 21 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chirping | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 field | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 field | det |
| 24 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 corner | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | a Ass | One day not said here | the pasture | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent day=Theme in pasture=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | find | past | Ass | some Grasshoppers | day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grasshopper=Topic | |||
| 3 | chirp | gerund | some Grasshoppers not said here | a grassy corner of the field | merrily property | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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