The Aesop for Children, The Frog and the Mouse, sentence 9
Then into the pond he jumped, dragging his foolish companion with him.
Who acts: Frog · What happens: jump, drag · To what, where: pond, foolish companion
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 (Frog), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 pond | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pond | det |
| 4 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jumped | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 jumped | nsubj |
| 6 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dragging | punct |
| 8 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 jumped | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 companion | nmod:poss |
| 10 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 companion | amod |
| 11 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dragging | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dragging | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | Frog | then | into the pond result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pond=Result | |||
| 2 | drag | gerund | Frog not said here | Frog's foolish companion | with Frog | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=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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