The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crab, sentence 1
A Crab one day grew disgusted with the sands in which he lived.
Who acts: he · What happens: disgust, live · To what, where: sands
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Crab. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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 | 4 day | det |
| 2 | Crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | compound |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Crab | flat |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disgusted | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 disgusted | aux:pass |
| 6 | disgusted | disgust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sands | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sands | det |
| 9 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 disgusted | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lived | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sands | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 disgusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disgust | past · passive | day | with the sands | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 2 | live | past | he | the sands | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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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