The Aesop for Children, The Dog and the Oyster, sentence 5
In a twinkling the Oyster was resting in the Dog's stomach, shell and all.
Who acts: Oyster · What happens: twinkle, rest · To what, where: stomach
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 (Oyster), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 twinkling | det |
| 3 | twinkling | twinkle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 In | conj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Oyster | det |
| 5 | Oyster | Oyster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 resting | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 resting | aux |
| 7 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 twinkling | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 stomach | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dog | det |
| 10 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Dog | case |
| 12 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 resting | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shell | punct |
| 14 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stomach | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 all | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 stomach | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 In | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twinkle | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | rest | past · progressive | the Oyster | the Dog's stomach and shell | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in stomach=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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