The Aesop for Children, The Dog and the Oyster, sentence 3
One day the Dog wandered down to the seashore.
Who acts: Dog · What happens: wander down · To what, where: seashore
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and the Oyster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog), 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 | 5 wandered | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Dog | det |
| 4 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 wandered | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 seashore | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 seashore | det |
| 9 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander down | past | the Dog | the seashore | day | down property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to seashore=Destination |
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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