The Aesop for Children, The Frog and the Mouse, sentence 1
A young Mouse in search of adventure was running along the bank of a pond where lived a Frog.
Who acts: young Mouse · What happens: run, live, search · To what, where: bank, Frog, adventure
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frog and the Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Mouse), 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 Mouse | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Mouse | amod |
| 3 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 running | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 search | case |
| 5 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Mouse | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 adventure | case |
| 7 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 search | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 running | aux |
| 9 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 bank | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bank | det |
| 12 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 running | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pond | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pond | det |
| 15 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bank | nmod |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 lived | advmod |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pond | acl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Frog | det |
| 19 | Frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 running | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · progressive | a young Mouse in search of adventure | the bank of a pond | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bank=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | live | past | a Frog | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme frog=Location | |||||
| 3 | search | adventure | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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