The Aesop for Children, The Two Pots, sentence 1
Two Pots, one of brass and the other of clay, stood together on the hearthstone.
Who acts: Two Pots · What happens: stand together · To what, where: hearthstone
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Pots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two Pots), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Pots | nummod |
| 2 | Pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Pots | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 brass | case |
| 6 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 one | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 other | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brass | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 clay | case |
| 11 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 other | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pots | punct |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 stood | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 hearthstone | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hearthstone | det |
| 17 | hearthstone | hearthstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand together | past | Two Pots | the hearthstone | together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hearthstone=Location |
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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