The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 1
A poor Woodman was cutting down a tree near the edge of a deep pool in the forest.
Who acts: poor Woodman · What happens: cut down · To what, where: tree, edge
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Mercury and the Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Woodman), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Woodman | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Woodman | amod |
| 3 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cutting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cutting | aux |
| 5 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 cutting | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cutting | obj |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 edge | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 edge | det |
| 11 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cutting | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pool | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pool | det |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pool | amod |
| 15 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 edge | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pool | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cutting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut down | past · progressive | a poor Woodman | a tree | the edge of a deep pool in the forest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product |
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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