The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Goat, sentence 6
The thirsty Goat immediately jumped in and began to drink.
Who acts: thirsty Goat · What happens: jump in, begin, drink
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thirsty Goat), 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 Goat | det |
| 2 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Goat | amod |
| 3 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 jumped | advmod |
| 5 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 jumped | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 jumped | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 drink | mark |
| 10 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump in | past | the thirsty Goat | immediately property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the thirsty Goat not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | the thirsty Goat not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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