The Aesop for Children, The Astrologer, sentence 5

He thought he saw there that the end of the world was at hand, when all at once, down he went into a hole full of mud and water.

Who acts: man, end · What happens: think, see, be, go · To what, where: hand, hole · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Astrologer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, end), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 saw	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 hand	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hand	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hand	cop
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 hand	case
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 all	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 all	advmod
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 hand	appos
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 once	case
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 all	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
21	down	down	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 hole	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hole	det
26	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
27	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hole	amod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 mud	case
29	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 full	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 water	cc
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mud	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	man			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	see	past	man	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	the end of the world	hand		tree rules
4	go	past	man	a hole	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hole=Initial_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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