The Aesop for Children, The Two Pots, sentence 2
One day the Brass Pot proposed to the Earthen Pot that they go out into the world together.
Who acts: Brass Pot, Pots · What happens: propose, go out · To what, where: Earthen Pot, world
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 (Brass Pot, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proposed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Pot | det |
| 4 | Brass | Brass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Pot | compound |
| 5 | Pot | Pot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 proposed | nsubj |
| 6 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Pot | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Pot | det |
| 9 | Earthen | Earthen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Pot | compound |
| 10 | Pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proposed | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 proposed | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 proposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | past | the Brass Pot | the Earthen Pot | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to pot=Recipient | |||
| 2 | go out | present | Pots = pot | the world | out, together property | vn interact-36.6 «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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