The Aesop for Children, The Astrologer, sentence 6
There he stood up to his ears, in the muddy water, and madly clawing at the slippery sides of the hole in his effort to climb out.
Who acts: man · What happens: stand up, claw, climb out · To what, where: muddy water
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), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 stood | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ears | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ears | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 water | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 11 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 water | amod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 clawing | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 clawing | cc |
| 15 | madly | madly | ADV | _ | 16 clawing | advmod |
| 16 | clawing | claw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 sides | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sides | det |
| 19 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sides | amod |
| 20 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 clawing | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 hole | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hole | det |
| 23 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sides | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 effort | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 effort | nmod:poss |
| 26 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hole | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 climb | mark |
| 28 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 clawing | advcl |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 climb | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | man | the muddy water; there | to man's ears | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | |||
| 2 | claw | gerund | man not said here | at the slippery sides of the hole in man's effort; madly property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at side=Patient | ||||
| 3 | climb out | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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