The Aesop for Children, The Fighting Bulls and the Frog, sentence 2
An old Frog living in the marsh, trembled as he watched the fierce battle.
Who acts: old Frog, Frog · What happens: live, tremble, watch · To what, where: marsh, old Frog, fierce battle
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Bulls and the Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Frog, Frog), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Frog | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Frog | amod |
| 3 | Frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trembled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Frog | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 marsh | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 marsh | det |
| 7 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 living | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 trembled | punct |
| 9 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 watched | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 watched | nsubj |
| 12 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 trembled | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 battle | det |
| 14 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 battle | amod |
| 15 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 watched | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | a old Frog not said here | the marsh | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in marsh=Location | ||||
| 2 | tremble | participle · passive | a old Frog | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | watch | past | Frog | the fierce battle | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=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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